Seven social movements that changed America
"How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movem...
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Creating free spaces : the Settlement House Movement and Two Janes
- From Ku Klux Klan to American fascists, 1920s-1930s
- Trustees of the nation : the campaign for old-age pensions
- Shareholders in relief : the Unemployed Movement in the 1930s
- Leadership and followership : the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
- Leadership and followership continued : the United Farm Workers Union
- Consciousness-raising as activism : intersectionality in practice
- Epilogue. The genius and mystery of social movements.
