Youths in many societies are in unique positions to change the course history. The collective power and leisure time of Youths allows them to mobilise and become activists and protesters. Young people represent the future beliefs and values of society, consequently, they are hard to ignore.
As youth culture encapsulates the transitionary period between childhood and adulthood, young adults want their views on increasingly relevant issues, such as health and education, to be acknowledged.
THE GREENSBORO SIT-INS.
On the 1st February 1960, four young black students sat down at the lunch counter of a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Inevitably, each student was refused service due to racial segregation policies. Their response was to peacefully occupy their seats for as long as possible, repeating the process everyday until widespread attention pressured Woolworth into desegregation.
"Seperate But not equal"
-Jim Haskins
the american civil rights movement