What is May 1968 events in France?
In May 1968, a period of civil unrest happened in [[France]]. There were similar movements around the same time across the world. They [[inspire|inspired]] a [[generation]] of protest art in the form of songs, imaginative [[graffiti]], [[poster|posters]], and [[slogan|slogans]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/western-art/museum-establishment-and-contemporary-art-politics-artistic-display-france-after-1968?format=PB|title=The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968|last=DeRoo|first=Rebecca J.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2014|isbn=9781107656918}}</ref> On 22 March, [[far-left]] groups, a small number of well-known poets and musicians, and 150 students occupied a building at the [[University of Paris]] at [[Nanterre]]. They held a meeting in the university council room about [[class struggle|class]] [[discrimination]] in French society and the political [[bureaucracy]] that controlled the university's funding. The university called the police, and the students left. There were more [[conflict|conflicts]] between students and authorities at Nanterre, and the university was shut down on 2 May 1968. Students at the [[Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3|Sorbonne campus]] of the University of Paris met on 3 May to protest the closure and the threats to expel several students at Nanterre. On Monday, 6 May, the national [[students' union|student union]], the Union nationale des étudiants de France, as well as the union of university teachers, marched to protest against the police invasion of the Sorbonne. More than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters marched towards the Sorbonne, which was still sealed off by the police, which charged and hit people with their [[Baton|batons]]. Most of the crowd left, but some began to make [[barricade|barricades]] out of whatever was at hand. Some people threw stones and forced the police to retreat. The police then used [[tear gas]] and charged the cr