Selected Events for Student Unrest |
| Year | Month | Day | Event | Related Resource |
| 1960 | March | | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical youth group established in the United States in 1959 that developed out of the youth branch of an older socialist educational organization, the League for Industrial Democracy, holds first organizational meeting. | Link |
April | 15 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded by a group of Southern Black college students at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC. | Link | | 1962 | June | | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) issues a manifesto, The Port Huron Statement. The statement, drafted by Tom Hayden, reflects both the disillusionment and idealism prevalent in the 1960s. | Link |
| 1965 | March | 24 | The first antiwar teach-in is held at the University of Michigan. At first, both supporters and opponents of the war attend the teach-ins. Before long, the campus teach-ins become anti-war rallies. | |
April | 17 | 15,000 students march in Washigton during a VietNam War protest sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | | | 1967 | October | 22 | 100,000 people March on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. The March includes appearances by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, author Norman Mailer, poet Robert Lowell and pediatrician Benjamin Spock. This is one of many demonstrations during the year. | |
| 1968 | April | 30 | More than 1,000 protesting students occupy five buildings in the last week of April 1968, effectively shutting down Columbia University until they are forcibly removed by the New York City police. | |
August | 05 | At the Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago students and police clash. | | | 1969 | January | 28 | The "Chicago Seven" are found not guilty of plotting to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention. | Link |
November | 15 | 250,000 people march in the largest anti-war demonstration in the history of Washington DC. Another 200,00 people gather in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. | | | 1970 | April | 30 | President Richard Nixon announces to a national television audience that US troops are invading Cambodia, the country west of Vietnam through which the North Vietnamese military is supplying their troops in the South. In fact, the US has been conducting bombing raids in Cambodia for over a year. The invasion initiates campus protests. | Link |
May | 04 | Four students are killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in Ohio. The killings shocked the American public and generated hundreds of protest activities across college campuses in the United States. | | May | 04 | The Cambodian invasion leads to campus protests. Four demonstrating students are killed and 10 wounded by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in Ohio. The killings shocked the American public and increase protest activities across college campuses in the United States. | |
