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Gilberto Guevara Niebla was arguably the single most important student leader of the Mexican student uprising of 1968--the uprising that was finally put down in a massacre by the Mexican army in October 1968.
Or you can purchase a two-volume account of the Sorbonne uprising in Paris, compressed into a tidy 1,311 pages.
Václav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
Jewish toughness was seen in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis and in the sacrifices of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi in 1964.
"Albanians themselves were unsure whether to call the violence a civil war, a revolution, a popular uprising or just plain chaos," said the New York Times . (3/17)