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Article: Youth Activism
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- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
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Youth Activism
The desire of some university students to emphasize recreational pursuits over academics has been a constant over the centuries. Another historical constant has been the tension between students and those they interact with off the campus. Moreover, it has usuall
y required extraordinary events outside the university to move youths to act in a political manner. For example, with the isolated exception of antislavery organizing before the Civil War (1861
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1865), it took until the twentieth century for political activism to become a rite of passage for a small portion of American students.
Premodern Europe
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries universities such as ...