Children and Youth Civil Rights

By Eliza AMJ Hughes

  • 18th and 19th Centuries: Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad

    Sarah Parker Remond, age 16. Frederick Douglass, age 16. Henry Highland Garent, age 15.

  • 1899: The Newsies

  • Tule Lake Internment Dissidents

  • 1951: Barbara Rose Johns and Students of Russa Moton High School

  • Student Activism and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

  • 14 year old, Emmett Till

  • 1960: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • The Birmingham Children's Crusade of 1963

  • 1963: Children’s March

  • 1965: Students Protest War at School

    Christopher Eckhardt (age 16), John F. Tinker (age 15), Mary Beth Tinker (age 13), Hope Tinker (age 11), Paul Tinker (age 8)

  • 1968: The Chicano Blowouts

  • 1917: The Bath Riots

  • The DREAMers

  • Dream Defenders Seek Justice for Trayvon Martin

  • Eagle Scouts Resign

  • 21 Children File Suit Against U.S. Government

  • #AssaultAt Campaign

    Niya Kenny was arrested along with her class mate by school security for speaking against him flipping her classmate onto a desk.

  • Standing Rock #NoDAPL Protest

    Dakota Natives protest to the Access for the Pipeline at Standing Rock