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CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
Bill of Right in Action
Summer 2000 (16:3)

Civil Disobedience

This Bill of Rights in Action looks at three historical and recent instances of civil disobedience. The first article examines the Free Speech Movement, which arose on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in the 1960s. The second article recounts the struggle of Mahatma Gandhi to free India from the British Empire. The final article explores the anti-abortion rescue movement.

U.S. History:  "You Can't Trust Anyone Over 30": The Berkeley Free Speech Movement

World History:  Bringing Down an Empire: Gandhi and Civil Disobedience

U.S. Government: The Rescue Movement and Free Speech

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