Commentary: Parkland student activists should study the East L.A. Blowouts that launched a movement
High school students nationwide have vowed to ditch their classrooms on March 14 and call for gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shootings. Expect massive media coverage and rightful public praise of the protesters as brave, honorable kids doing the right thing.
Pundits will place them in the same spectrum as previous generations of young activists: the teenagers who faced down Bull Connor's dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, the giant college rallies against the Vietnam War, even the
