Student Activism in the 1930s
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Activist Impulses: Campus Radicalism in the 1930s

By Robert Cohen

• Radical Students and "Red" Professors

• Family Influences on Student Radicalism

• Economics and the Shift Left

• The Student Activist Community

• Obstacles to Radicalization

• End Notes

"Activist Impulses: Campus Radicalism in the 1930s" was originally published in Professor Robert Cohen's When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). © Robert Cohen. Order via Amazon.Com

Professor Paul Axelrod offers a Canadian perspective in the his introductory essay

• The Student and Youth Movements in Canada During the 1930s





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