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Introduction: African American student activism in the 20th century.
In the 20th century social and political activism was an important aspect of student life and culture in the United States. As historians and other social scientists begin to assess the dominant patterns and trends in movements for social change over the past century, they are beginning to conclude that student activism was an important element in itself and as part of larger social reform movements. At the dawn of the 20th century when the Progressive reform movement was in full swing, the "College Settlement Movement" was launched by undergraduate men and women who opened settlement houses in poor immigrant neighborhoods in U.S. cities. The college students moved into the settlements and provided education and social welfare services in the form of English and "Americanization" classes, health and child care, industr...
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