236: Teen Activists: A History of Youth Politics and Protest

This month, youth around the globe participated in Youth Strike 4
Climate, coordinated demonstrations by school students who are
demanding action by world leaders to prevent further climate
change. So, in this episode, Joanne, Brian & Ed talk about
the role young people have played in American politics. They’ll
look at how the desegregation movement in Virginia was sparked in
part by a 16-year-old girl, how young Americans made it okay to
be independent voters and thinkers in the early centuries, a 1945
student walkout against integration, and the story of a young
Lakota activist who travelled to Standing Rock when she was in
high school.

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and may contain some minor differences.

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