Youth Organizing

Name: Feb. 22, 1943: White Rose Members Executed
Uploaded: 1943-02-22T13:21:48-04:00
Channel: Zinn Education Project
Description: Student activists Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed for urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.

Students have organized demonstrations, sit-ins, walkouts, and many other forms of protest. Here are a few examples.

Feb. 13, 1937: Founding of Southern Negro Youth Congress

The first Southern Negro Youth Conference (SNYC) conference was held in Richmond, Virginia.