The laborers would have to go on strike at least twice more before any demands were met. After the defeats, the mill girls changed tactics towards political action in the 1840s. They organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association to press for reducing the workday to 10 hours. 

They also created a large petition campaign amassing over 2,000 signers on the first year and more than double that on a petition the following year. Their petition included asks for the Massachusetts state legislature to cap the workday in the mills at 10 hours. They continued to organize with other mills in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, published “Factory Tracts" which detailed their detestable conditions, and testified before a state legislative committee.  

Tule Lake, originally a federal work facility, detained persons of Japanese descent removed from western Washington, Oregon and Northern California. With a peak population of 18,700, Tule Lake was the largest of these camps. It was the only camp converted into a maximum-security segregation center ruled under martial law and occupied by the Army. 

U.S. government officials forced inmates to complete 28 surveys to determine how “American” they were or how loyal they were to the country. Many refused to answer the surveys, or only answered “no” on the questionnaires. Fed up with squalid living conditions and inadequate medical care in addition to the surveys, 35 teenagers protested by refusing to turn in their surveys. They were arrested and taken to jail at gunpoint. 

The nine students, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls, had been recruited by Daisy Gaston Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, an influential African American newspaper. 

In response, Arkansas' governor defied the court, and ordered the state national guard to block the Little Rock Nine, as the students became known, from entering the school. The student's perseverance in the face of rampant and violent racism and anti-blackness paved the way for the integration and progress in the Civil Rights Movement.  

The SNCC quickly became more radical than their founding organization and soon came to be known as the shock troop of the revolution. The SNCC organized freedom buses, voter registration tactics, and sit-ins.  

Fueled by young people’s rejection of white supremacy, SNCC was once the nation’s largest and most well-organized civil rights group. 

One of these student organizations was the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) founded in Michigan. The SDS organized teach-ins and mobilized on their campus. Soon students across the country were protesting the war. 

However, the student movement was not just limited to college campuses. In 196, 5 school-aged youth, Christopher Eckhardt (age 16), John F. Tinker (age 15), Mary Beth Tinker (age 13), Hope Tinker (age 11), and Paul Tinker (age 8) along with other students decided to wear black armbands to their schools in Des Moines, Iowa, to mourn the dead on both sides of the Vietnam War and to support a Christmas truce. The students were subsequently suspended after their school board tried to prevent them from wearing the armbands. With the support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the young people took their case of violation of free speech to the Supreme Court and won in 1969.  

Organizers with the walkout presented a list of demands to the Los Angeles Board of Education, including recommendations for curriculum changes, bilingual education, and hiring of Mexican American administrators. Unfortunately, the demands were not fulfilled due to the Board claiming lack of funding. Nonetheless, this walkout demonstrated the ability for young people to mobilize across age and class lines and be empowered in their Chicano identity.  

On June 16, 1976, between 10,000 and 20,000 students left their schools and rallied in protest to this new legislation. The protesters were met by police violence and hundreds of deaths resulted from this brutality. But ultimately, the protest got the world’s attention and led to the international opposition that would eventually topple the racist regime. 

Student protesters went on to organize a hunger strike, with thousands in support, to push their way to talk with Communist Party leaders. Martial law was soon put into place by officials yet this did not deter the student protestors. Young people continued to gather as the government sought to "restore order" through the killing, arrest, and torture of protesters. The number of deaths is unknown yet what is remembered is the strength and resilience of the thousands of students.  

Through Facebook and Twitter, young people organized a revolution of unprecedented size and scope. Beginning in Tunisia, then spreading to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and other Middle Eastern countries, the pro-democracy protests rallied against oppressive governments, police corruption, economic struggle, and widespread human rights violations.  

Today, Black Lives Matter is a world-renowned movement that continues to have young people at its forefront.  

Youth were integral from the beginning of the movement for water rights. Indigenous youth across the country mobilized via petitions, demonstrations, and sit-ins. Youth used the power of social media to spread their position and subsequent hashtag, #NODAPL, across the globe. They garnered support nationwide from politicians to celebrities.  

Today, groups like the International Indigenous Youth Council continue to fight for Indigenous water rights across the country.  

The march and subsequent March for Our Lives organizing not only calls for gun control and an end to gun violence but also protesting police brutality, domestic abuse, and advocating for LGBTQ rights. The movement also mobilized for youth participation in the 2018 elections and in the political process in general.