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Beginning with Indigenous peoples’ resistance to European colonization and continuing through to today’s climate change demonstrations, this history of protest movements and rebellion in the US explores what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Emmy Award-winning writer, an educator, activist, playwright, and social justice attorney. Her seventh book is A Protest History of the United States, an interdisciplinary history combining primary sources, memoir, law, and interviews, in a book covering 500 hundred years of selected protests and protesters from the colonial period to climate change. Browne-Marshall is a professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY). She was a Fall 2022 Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) as well as an HKS Visiting Professor. She taught at Vassar College prior to John Jay College. Browne-Marshall litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. She was the senior law clerk to Judge Herbert Hutton of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as well as a law clerk to Chief Administrative Judge Harry Takiff of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia and a summer intern to Judge Weiner of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 

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