The rising costs of kosher meat led Jewish women to organize a butcher boycott. The successful action alerted the immigrant community to women's political power.

A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.

In 1974, the culture wars came to Kanawha County, West Virginia, inciting protests over school curriculum.

More than 20,000 participants in the counterculture gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park to do little more than simply “be” together.

They crossed our path and we lived to tell the tale. Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection!

In an age of hashtag activism and partisan news, social media offers possibilities for intersectional movements to reimagine images of Black protest.

Despite police violence against Chicano demonstrators in Los Angeles, the movement was not deterred.

"On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences."

Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.

Many people assume that strong movements for minority rights provoke backlash at the polls. But some scholars have doubts.