During that same period, civil rights activism and anti-war disturbances heightened tensions in the city, including the burning of several buildings on the CSU campus.

Du Bois advocated activism to achieve civil rights.

She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.

The 1960s were a time of great social upheaval and civil rights activism.

Fonda has also been involved in the feminist movement since the 1970s, which dovetails with her activism in support of civil rights.

Zakim was born in Clifton, NJ and became interested in civil rights and activism after he encountered anti-semitism as a boy.

Howard introduced Evers to civil rights activism through the Regional Council of Negro Leadership which organized a boycott against service stations which refused to provide restrooms for blacks.

During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads ( known in Spanish by the name of Escuadrón de la Muerte, " Squadron of Death ") achieved notoriety when far-right vigilantes assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero for his social activism in March 1980.

By the late 1960s, Crystal City would become the location of continued activism in the civil rights movement among its Mexican-American majority population, and the birthplace of the third party political movement known as La Raza Unida Party founded by three Chicanos, including José Ángel Gutiérrez over a conflict about the ethnicity of cheerleaders at Crystal City High School.

He worked for Ford Motor Company, which soon blacklisted him for involvement in labor and civil rights activism.

Acts of hacktivism are carried out in the belief that proper use of code will be able to produce similar results to those produced by regular activism or civil disobedience.

According to a 2005 article by Randy Borum and Chuck Tilby, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: " Some organizations such as Ruckus Society and Anarchist Black Cross Federation even specialize in providing training in activism and varying forms of civil disobedience.

In 1964, Gregory became more involved in struggles for civil rights, activism against the Vietnam War, economic reform, anti-drug issues, conspiracy theories, and others.

Unaddressed protests may grow and widen into civil resistance, dissent, activism, riots, insurgency, revolts, and political and / or social revolution.

* Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to civil rights and human rights litigation, advocacy and activism, formerly known as The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

The climax of liberalism came in the mid-1960s with the success of President Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1963 – 69 ) in securing congressional passage of his Great Society programs, including civil rights, the end of segregation, Medicare, extension of welfare, federal aid to education at all levels, subsidies for the arts and humanities, environmental activism, and a series of programs designed to wipe out poverty.

Since that time, activism has played a central role in student life, with movements for civil rights and against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and for student and faculty diversity in the 1980s.

The song became associated with the Civil Rights movement from 1959, when Guy Carawan stepped in as song leader at Highlander, which was then focused on non-violent civil rights activism.

From there, it spread orally and became an anthem of Southern African American labor union and civil rights activism.

Many chapters are also involved in political actions, such as lobbying high school and university administrators for expanded Bilingual Education programs and Chicano-related curricula, the celebration of Mexican cultural traditions, as well as other Latin American holidays ( such as Mexican Independence Day ), Columbus Day protests, sit-ins, hunger strikes, boycotts, rallies, marches and other political activism relating to civil rights, affirmative action, and immigration.

The Warren Court left an unprecedented legacy of judicial activism in the area of civil rights law as well as in the area of civil liberties — specifically, the rights of the accused as addressed in Amendments 4 through 8.

It is most often manifested as a decentralized campaign of civil disobedience, activism, art movements, especially performance art and guerrilla art, culture jamming, graffiti and other vandalism, practical jokes, hoaxes, reality hacking, chaos magic, words of power, trolling and anything else that is believed to bring about social change through disrupting paradigms and thus forcing the victim to question the parameters of one's reality tunnel.

In 1961, Whitney Young became executive director amidst the expansion of activism in the civil rights movement, which provoked a change for the League.

Substantial peasant activism exists on a variety of issues, especially related to land rights and land reform.

Many male feminists and pro-feminists are active in both women's rights activism, feminist theory, and masculinity studies.

In this activism they have clashed with state and religious institutions which have limited such rights ( see Anarchism and religion ).

Pagans often feel a duty to protect the Earth through activism, and support causes such as rainforest protection, organic farming, permaculture, animal rights and so on.

Bergler confronted Kinsey because Kinsey thwarted the possibility of cure by presenting homosexuality as an acceptable way of life, which was the basis of the homosexual rights activism of the time.

They encouraged — and eventually helped sponsor — Parks in the summer of 1955 to attend the Highlander Folk School, an education center for activism in workers ' rights and racial equality in Monteagle, Tennessee.

" It is also known that Kevin Plunder has been granted political asylum in the United States for his human rights activism in this prehistoric land.

In so doing, it explores the relationship between Christian theology — especially Roman Catholic theology — and political activism, especially in terms of social justice, poverty, and human rights.

In the 2000s, the Weiquan movement began in the PRC, seeking to advance citizens ' rights partly by petitioning for enforcement of existing laws, and partly through activism.

During the 1930s, political activism arose in Métis communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan over land rights.

The Warren Court's activism stretched into a new turf, especially First Amendment rights.

At around this time he discovered the cruising scene in Pershing Square, where he met a man who told him about the Society for Human Rights, a homosexual rights group that had existed briefly in Chicago in the 1920s ( although Hay would later deny that he had any knowledge of previous LGBT activism ).

Norris has since then expanded his activism to a concept of " universal rights ".

Its treatment has also been a focus of animal rights and animal welfare activism.

Ann Arbor became a focal-point for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

Ann Arbor also became a locus for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

This activism occurred in the context of a broader antipsychiatry movement that had come to the fore in the 1960s and was challenging the legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis.

Various communities have worked not only together, but also independent of each other in various configurations including gay liberation, lesbian feminism, the queer movement and transgender activism.

Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, which promoted tolerance for homosexuals in Germany, welcomed lesbian participation, and a surge of lesbian-themed writing and political activism in the German feminist movement became evident.

What followed was a movement characterized by a surge of gay activism and feminist consciousness that further transformed the definition of lesbian.

In the late 19th century, the Social Gospel movement arose ( particularly among some Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists in North America and Britain ,) which attempted to integrate progressive and socialist thought with Christianity in faith-based social activism, promoted by movements such as Christian Socialism.

Other manners in which many North American pagans have got involved with the movement are through political and / or ecological activism, such as " vegetarian groups, health food stores " or feminist university courses.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he did write songs critical of hippies.

In this he disagreed with Charles Bradlaugh, and the disagreement split the secularist movement between those who argued that anti-religious movements and activism was not necessary or desirable and those who argued that it was.

Social activism influenced abolition groups and supporters of the temperance movement.

However, as a co-founder of SANE, Fromm's strongest political activism was in the international peace movement, fighting against the nuclear arms race and US involvement in the Vietnam War.

The radical environmental movement aspires to what scholar Christopher Manes calls " a new kind of environmental activism: iconoclastic, uncompromising, discontented with traditional conservation policy, at time illegal ..." Radical environmentalism presupposes a need to reconsider Western ideas of religion and philosophy ( including capitalism, patriarchy and globalization ) sometimes through " resacralising " and reconnecting with nature.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement, and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he also wrote songs critical of hippies.

The fat acceptance movement ( also known as the size acceptance, fat liberation, fat activism, or fat power movement ) is an effort to change societal attitudes towards fat people.

Although from a conservative family, he was politically active in the student anti-Franco movement, an adolescent political activism that forced him to flee Spain for France.

The radical environmental movement aspires to what scholar Christopher Manes calls " a new kind of environmental activism: iconoclastic, uncompromising, discontented with traditional conservation policy, at time illegal ..." Radical environmentalism presupposes a need to reconsider Western ideas of religion and philosophy ( including capitalism, patriarchy and globalization ) sometimes through " resacralising " and reconnecting with nature.