Student movements generally are thought of college student movements. These young adult movements have a long history in widely differing societies. Some have been characterized as direct student redress of situational grievances, such as the seventeenth-century sacking of the English Jesuit College of La Fleche to protest a rigid, strained regimen and the student protests led by African-American and Hispanic students on over a hundred campuses in the 1980s and 1990s to protest cutbacks in governmental aid and scholarships for lower-income students. Other student protest movements have been related to larger social movements. Examples are evident over time and space, including the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary student movement, the American civil rights and antiwar student movements of the 1930s and 1960s, the 1970s Greek student Polytechnic protest that precipitated the downfall of that country's military dictatorship, and the ill-fated Chinese Tianenmen Square democratic movement in the late...