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For example, protestors barricade the university's gates, burned (Zinser and Spilman) statues around campus. As the protest continued, people involved took their march onto capital hall. Gallaudet University couldn’t start classes for a full week as protesters wouldn't allow classes to resume while this debacle was taking place.

March 16 saw a demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama in which 580 demonstrators planned to march “from the Jackson Street Baptist Church to the Montgomery County Courthouse” (Reed 26). These protestors included a large number of northern college students. They met a police line a few blocks from the Courthouse and were forbidden from proceeding because “they did not have a parade permit” (Reed 26). Across the street came 40 or so students who planned on joining the group en route to the Courthouse. Eventually a few of the demonstrators dared to cross the street, led by James Forman who had organized the march. When it seemed the whole group would cross, police took action, with mounted officers and volunteers arriving at 1:12 pm. Riding into the small group of protestors, they forced most to withdraw, but a few stood fast around a utility pole where horsemen began to beat them. “A posseman

officer spraying pepper spray into a crowd who were not acting violently. Sure, the protesters

The protest was created on a Facebook page which in less than four hours 250 people said they were attending. The protest was initially to make the Muslim community at Texas A&M University feel welcomed, but it became a protest for all ethnicities who live in fear because the executive action. Many professors attended this protest, some forced by their families to stand with their students who needed them the most. The first ten days since Donald Trump took office seven executive orders were signed, a few targeting immigrants, or as Trump calls them “Foreign Terrorists”. The article provides information about the protest and how some students disagreed with this protest that happened at Rudder Plaza. I plan to use this source’s information to include the different actions students at this university did to support one another throughout a difficult time for

Protesters filled the streets in front of the store and in the dining room, and most to all of the protesters were arrested.

Over 100 universities had rallies and demonstrations. The article also highlights the different protests on fourteen different campuses across the country. Many of the students asked for equality on campuses, others asked that buildings be renamed, and for racial discrimination on campus to be addressed.

By 1960, students from four colleges marched to Nashville downtown stores in a sit-in a nonviolent protest in their effort to end with racial segregation. They were insulted and attacked with rocks by white students and also incarcerated without a reason, but they never gave up. At the end, social institutions responded in a great and positive way, serving the students as they deserved. Since 2010, a series of peaceful marches and sits-in had been occurred throughout the country looking for the approval of the DREAM Act. Undocumented students of all countries are asking for a change of to legalize their immigration status and have the opportunity to complete their higher education.

The following day on November 19th I received an email from the Dickinson Student Senate explaining that there was going to be a discussion concerning last night's demonstration held at ATS (a large performance auditorium on campus) at 9 p.m. This discussion was initially intended to be held in the common room of Social Justice House (a special interest house located on campus) but it was moved to ATS due to a lack of available space. I attended this discussion in which about a quarter of Dickinson Colleges' 2,000 students attended. Two discussion moderators (both Dickinson students) stood in front of the participating audience and offered guidelines for how the discussion would commence. They told the audience that it was important to remember

It wasn’t the right time or place for the Student for Peace to start a riot. If a person is charged or arrested for doing something it matters what time and where was it done. In Schenck v. United States (1919), Justice Holmes stated, “What someone is constitutionally allowed to do depends upon the time and place in which it is done.” This quote means that if someone is allowed to do something it all depends on what time or place it was done. For example, a person can’t just yell Fire in a crowded movie theater if there isn’t actually a fire. That would’ve caused a lot of chaos that can cause injuries and also death. It all depends on the time and place. This applies to Student for Peace because it was a park and there was a festival. In the park there are supposed to be kids Student for Peace were handing out graphic photos that were inappropriate for kids. Even if kids didn’t take the flyers, in festivals flyers are all over the place like the ground. So, kids can eventually see it. Also, it was a festival to be a community not to fight.

Planning for it was also very challenging, since we did not know what to expect. We thought it would be very calm, but really we had no clue. It was also very difficult to continue protesting when the atmosphere became chaotic. I no longer wished to be within the throng of people because, as much as I was aware that they did not actually care about the topic of protest, they were growing increasingly boisterous. In this way, it was demanding to continue protesting and ignore that the situation was causing me a large amount of stress. However, despite the unfavorable conditions, I did learn a lot because of this

The North Carolina NAACP has led the HKonJ march as well as the past marches for eleven years called the “Moral March on Raleigh”. The local Police Department was unable to provide the number of people involved in the civil rights march but the March Organizers was expecting a large attendance turn out of about 20,000 protesters. The protest attendance on Saturday appeared to be much larger than that of the march that was held in 2014which was approximately 80,000. Saturday’s protester carried signs and chanted comments promoting different civil rights issues ranging from gerrymandering and immigration and that of public education. Protesters focus was also on the repealing of the House Bill 2 which has limits on the rights of the LGBT to which bathrooms transgender are allowed to use.

Through community policing the agencies get word of a gathering from who most likely has concern or complaint of the protest. When officers get on scene they form a border between the protesters and their target. Sometimes the target is private property in which police officers have a right to block the protesters from the premises. Since a peaceful protest is going on so far, no citations are to be issued for that they are simply exercising their rights. But protest can turn violent in a split second and for seemingly no reason at all. (Applegate, 1998) “One person’s violent reaction at the scene of the crime may spread, through contagion to other members of the group. A few highly emotional people shouting out bitter grievances, can whip a crowd into a frenzy.” (Archer, 25,

There were but a few faculty and staff members (often those who made less than they should have) that were willing to agree with or stand up for what the protestors believed was legitimate. The majority of the faculty refused to wield their power; however, there were faculty members that Dean Deane mentions in an interview with Kunen saying, “…if we have a pattern or disruption of University life, many faculty are going to quietly leave. They simply won’t live in this kind of atmosphere” (page 115). Had the University had more faculty that were willing to stand up for the students, and actually, “take the view of students into consideration when they planned restructuring of the University,” (page 123) like Temple Committee, (which came across as a charity anyhow), perhaps social change on the campus would have happened much sooner and with far less violence.

The rally itself occurred for an hour between the times of 2.00-3.00pm. The excuse was of calling for greater student rights on campus.

It is unclear whether or not the student movement succeeded in funding the schools. However, this revolt did inspire later revolts such as the black power sign during the 1968 Olympic Games and a revolt following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. There were revolts in over 50 cities and students fought police officers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A significant outcome today is that there are few to no revolts because there are many colleges now. Students in colleges also have more rights and can wander into any dormitory of their