✊Lessons from Resistance: How History Guides Modern Democracy Defense
Historical Precedent
Civic Action
Civil Rights
Historians and activists examined successful resistance movements at June 5, 2025 conference, drawing lessons from abolitionism, suffrage, and civil rights. Speakers emphasized how previous generations used legal challenges, civil disobedience, and mass protests to defend constitutional principles against government overreach.
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Why This Matters
Your Resistance Toolkit:
Historical resistance movements provide proven tactics for defending rights and democracy—understanding these tools helps you participate effectively in protecting your community.
Your Social Change Knowledge:
Learning how previous movements succeeded helps you evaluate which strategies might work to address current threats to constitutional government and civil rights.
Your Civic Courage:
Historical examples of ordinary people taking extraordinary risks to defend democracy inspire and guide your own choices about civic engagement and moral responsibility.
Your Strategic Thinking:
Understanding how successful movements combined different tactics helps you participate in or support resistance efforts that protect constitutional principles in your community.
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Which WWII resistance network do scholars compare to today’s U.S. pro-democracy coalitions?
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Civic Action
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Which First-Amendment clause protects the right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances”?
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Constitutional Law
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The reading assigns what share of successful movements to “broad-based coalition” factors?
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Government
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Which Supreme Court case upheld broad permits for marches but allowed narrow time-place-manner limits?
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Constitutional Law
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Digital-security trainers recommend which encrypted-messaging app for organizing?
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Public Policy
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“Brandenburg immunity” protects speech that is
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Constitutional Law
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International IDEA ranks U.S. democratic backsliding score change at what value between 2015-2024?
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Public Policy
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Which 1960s civil-rights slogan does the module cite as a classic framing device?
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Civic Action
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Which labor-rights anthem popularized the phrase “solidarity forever” in 1915?
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Civic Action
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Which philosopher coined “the tyranny of the majority,” often cited in movement curricula?
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Civic Action
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Non-violent campaigns have historically succeeded more often than violent ones.
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Public Policy
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The U.N. Declaration on Human Rights explicitly includes a right to resist tyranny.
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Constitutional Law