Students at 1,350 universities and colleges participated in demonstrations against the shootings and the escalation. ... Kent Stat's expanding student enrollment from five thousand in 1954 to over twenty-one thousand by 1966, and the construction of more dormitories signalled Kent's transformation from a commuter and teacher's college to a residential and academically comprehensive institution. ... Standard works on the white student movement of this time assert that activists clustered at prestigious universities that had a large proportion of middle and upper-class students. ....

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The youth movement was characterized by young college students that had become political activists and were against political suppression by the government. ... The people of the counterculture were young college age men and women. Majority of these students were middle-class and attended nice universities across the country. ... Students all across the country became a part of a group called the Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) leftist group that was founded in 1959. These students were very strongly against the war and also very invested in the civil rights movement. ...

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The 1960's are reminiscent of tie-dye, protests, and rapid change. At the peak of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam was a catalyst to the strong emergence of counterculture. Those who joined the non-conformist movement often held liberal ideas and unique appearances. Also, the Civil Rights movement h...

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