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Back-to-the-land movement
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Refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s involving an attempted migration from cities to rural areas.
Black Panther Party
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African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
Canadian Union of Students
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Formed in 1963, the Canadian Union of Students (CUS) was the successor organization of the National Federation of Canadian University Students (NFCUS) formed in 1926. CUS like NFCUS was essentially a ...
Chipko movement
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Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hug...
COINTELPRO
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A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the ...
Counterculture of the 1960s
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A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservati...
Disability rights movement
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A movement aims to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
Freedom rides
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Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
Gay Liberation
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The name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
Hippies
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A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
Just Society Movement
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The Just Society Movement was founded in 1968 by two single mothers, who were fed up with a welfare system that did not serve their needs. Cleverly named to hold Trudeau's Liberals accountable to thei...
Liberation News Service
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A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
Mattachine Society
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One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
New Hogtown Press
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New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
Sexual revolution in 1960s America
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Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes ...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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Student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last ...
SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
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Stevenson, William
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A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
"The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
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History of Intellectual Culture, Volume 7, No. 1
Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
Underground Press Syndicate
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A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
Weather Underground Organization
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An American radical left organization.


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