More than 50 years ago, young people here in Oregon and across the country—creative, visionary, revolutionary, and radical young people—began to imagine what they wanted their world to look like: a world in which political, economic, and cultural change would bring justice and equality.

The strategies they used—protests, sit-ins, boycotts, coalition building, community organizing, and more—continue to inform our efforts to create change and reshape policy in the United States.