While the act of young people speaking out may seem to be new, there’s a long history of Americans who were too young to vote shifting the national conversation on social and political issues. The March of the Mill Children , the three-week trek from Philadelphia to New York by striking child and adult textile workers in 1903. which energized efforts to end it by law. The Woolworth' Lunch Counter Sit-in On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. Thousands of students left their classrooms and marched on downtown Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Their Children’s Crusade changed a na...
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