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Protests and Demonstrations

Last Updated: 25-Aug-2015

Stanford Students in front of Memorial Auditorium

This guide outlines a variety of resources on the history of protest and civil disobedience in the U.S. and at Stanford. It also provides current resources about civil disobedience.

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Subjects

American history
Communication and journalism
Public opinion
Race and ethnicity studies

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

War Resister's International Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns 2nd edition
The NonViolence Handbook, A Guide for Practical Action (print and ebook)
Crowd Management and Civil Disobedience Guidelines from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
2012 edition
Crowd Management and Civil Disobedience Guidelines from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
2003 edition
Path of resistance : the practice of civil disobedience (print)
Civil disobedience : an encyclopedic history of dissidence in the United States (print)
The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience (print)
The coming swarm : DDoS actions, hacktivism, and civil disobedience on the Internet (print)
Organizing Cools the Planet Workshop and Training Curriculum
Students for a Free Tibet Campaigning and Direct Action Tools
The Ruckus Society Tools & Resources
Direct Action, deliberation, and diffusion: : collective action after the WTO protests in Seattle (print and online)
Encyclopedia of activism and social justice / editors, Gary L. Anderson & Kathryn G. Herr.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2007.
Green Library » Social Sciences Resource Center (non-circulating) » HM671 .E53 2007 V.1
Youth activism : an international encyclopedia / Lonnie R. Sherrod, editor.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » HQ799.2 .P6 Y65 2006 V.1
Encyclopedia of the First Amendment / edited by John R. Vile, David L. Hudson Jr., David Schultz.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2009.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » KF4770 .E53 2009 V.1
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution / edited by Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst.
2nd ed. / New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » KF4548 .E53 2000 V.1
Free expression and censorship in America : an encyclopedia / Herbert N. Foerstel.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Green Library » Stacks » Z658 .U5 F644 1997
Readings on social movements : origins, dynamics and outcomes / [edited by] Doug McAdam, David A. Snow.
2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Green Library » Stacks » HN28 .M33 2010
Developing national action plans against racial discrimination : a practical guide / United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.
Green Library » International Government Documents » HR/PUB/13/3
First Amendment institutions [electronic resource] / Paul Horwitz.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2013.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Liberty's refuge [electronic resource] : the forgotten freedom of assembly / John D. Inazu.
New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2012.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Liberty's refuge : the forgotten freedom of assembly / John D. Inazu.
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2012.
Law Library (Crown) » Stacks 1 » KF4778 .I53 2012
The First Amendment. Freedom of assembly and petition : its constitutional history and the contemporary debate / edited by Margaret M. Russell.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c2010.
Law Library (Crown) » Stacks 1 » KF4778 .F57 2010
Speech out of doors [electronic resource] : preserving First Amendment liberties in public places / Timothy Zick.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
The Oxford handbook of political behavior / edited by Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » JA74.5 .O93 2007
Civil disobedience : an encyclopedic history of dissidence in the United States / Mary Ellen Snodgrass.
Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2009.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » JC328.3 .S64 2009 V.1

Selected Books

Further Reading - Books on Protest and Civil Disobedience from the Stanford Collections

Antigone / Sophocles ; a verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes.
Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2013.
Green Library » Stacks » PA4414 .A7 M78 2013
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color / edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa.
Fourth edition.
Green Library » Stacks » PS509 .F44 T5 2015
By the people : rebuilding liberty without permission / Charles Murray.
First edition.
Law Library (Crown) » Basement » JC328.3 .M87 2015
Citizen : an American lyric / Claudia Rankine.
Green Library » Stacks » PS3568 .A572 C58 2014
Civil disobedience : an American tradition / Lewis Perry.
Green Library » Stacks » JC328.3 .P444 2013
Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present / edited by Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Green Library » Stacks » JC328.3 .C58 2009
The coming swarm : DDoS actions, hacktivism, and civil disobedience on the Internet / Molly Sauter.
Green Library » Stacks » HM851 .S2375 2014
Civil disobedience : protest, justification, and the law / Tony Milligan.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Green Library » Stacks » JC328.3 .M55 2013
Dissent : the history of an American idea / Ralph Young.
Green Library » Stacks » HN57 .Y63 2015
Dissent.
[New York, Dissent Pub. Corp., etc.]
Green Library » Current Periodicals
The end of straight supremacy : realizing gay liberation / Shannon Gilreath.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Green Library » Stacks » HQ76.3 .U6 G55 2011
Freedom is a constant struggle : the Mississippi civil rights movement and its legacy / Kenneth T. Andrews.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Green Library » Stacks » E185.93 .M6 A85 2004
Social and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi / Bidyut Chakrabarty.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Green Library » Stacks » DS481 .G3 C427 2006
From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Green Library » Stacks » E185.61 .F917 2012
National responsibility and global justice / David Miller.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Green Library » Stacks » JZ1308 .M55 2007
Teaching for dissent : citizenship education and political activism / Sarah M. Stitzlein.
Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1091 .S75 2012
A time to break silence : the essential works of Martin Luther King, Jr. for students / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; introduction by Walter Dean Myers.
Green Library » Stacks » E185.97 .K5 A25 2013
Gandhi on non-violence : selected texts from Mohandas K. Gandhi's non-violence in peace and war / edited, with an introduction by Thomas Merton ; preface by Mark Kurlansky.
New York : New Directions Pub., c2007.
Green Library » Stacks » HM1281 .G34 2007
Non-violent resistance (Satyagraha) / M.K. Gandhi.
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover, 2001.
Green Library » Stacks » HM1281 .G35 2001
Walden ; and, Civil disobedience : complete texts with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays / Henry David Thoreau ; edited by Paul Lauter.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.
Green Library » Stacks » PS3054 .T46 2000

Article Databases

Use this list of databases to find articles, reports, books, and book chapters on protest movements, civil disobedience, the history of these movements, and more.

Alt-PressWatch [electronic resource].
[Stamford, Conn.] : Softline Information, [2001]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Ethnic newsWatch [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Project Muse. Premium collection.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » NONEAQD4378
LGBT life with full text [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Information Services
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Sociology [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
ProQuest. Research library [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000 [electronic resource] / Kathryn Sklar and Thomas Dublin, editors.
Scholar's edition. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press ; Binghamton, N.Y. : Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York, Binghamton
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Women and social movements, international [electronic resource] : 1840 to present / [edited] by Thomas Dublin, Kathryn Kish Sklar.
Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Urban studies abstracts [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)