Fall 2026

History of Student Activism From the Popular Front to Black Lives Matter

This course explores the history of student activism in the US, focusing on marginalized racial/ethnic minority youths and their impact on social and political change.

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Summary

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

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Educational Policy Studies, History

About this course

Explore the history of student activism in the United States, with an emphasis on the experiences racial/ethnic minority youths who have been marginalized or discriminated against. What motivated students to become politically active, and what forms did their activism take? How did student activism vary across time and space and from one group of activists to another? Why did some students become activists while others did not? What role did education and educational institutions play in their activism? What impact have student activists had, and what do their histories reveal about the capacity and mechanisms for achieving racial equity in particular and for affecting social, political, and economic change more broadly?

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EDPOL/HISTORY 612

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Fall 2026

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

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Topics

Marginalized youth experiences
Motivations for political activism
Role of educational institutions
Racial equity mechanisms

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