History Day - Taking a Stand

Content will be added next time this annual theme is used.

These are only a few examples.

• Civil Rights
  • Rosa Parks
  • CT legislator who worked for LGBTQ+
  • Vito Russo and Act Up
• Labor Unions
• Smith Sisters of Glastonbury
• Conscientious Objectors 
• Desmond TuTu
• Nelson Mandela
• Sheff of Sheff v O'Neill
• Griswold of Griswold V CT
• Queen Liliuokalani’s fight against annexation to maintain Hawaiian independence
• Protesting CT income tax
• Voting Rights
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • 21st?
  • Alice Paul
• Temperance Movement
• Protests
  • Vietnam war
  • student protests
  • peace protest at EB and sub base
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  • Sacred Insults: Religious Conflict And Compromise In 1930s Connecticut - see article in 2018 theme book
• War of 1812 and Hartford Convention
• United States Institute of Peace
• Jackie Robinson purchasing house in CT
• USA stand when delaying to enter WWI or WWII
• Benedict Arnold and the Powder House Key
• Horace Mann and the Fight for Quality Education
• Abolitionists: Nat Turner, John Brown, Beecher/Stowes
• Standing Against Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act
• Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
• What Happens When No One Takes a Stand? Neville Chamberlain’s Appeasement of Adolf Hitler
• Standing Against the Monarchy: Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament Versus King Charles
  • CT connection
• Charter Oak not handed over
• resistance to colonization (throughout the world)
• Loyalists in colonies
• First Ladies and their causes
• Suffragists who were jailed and hunger strike
• McCarthyism, Red Scare, Lavender Scare
  • Pete Seeger
• Eminent Domain
  • Kelo v New London
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