Advocacy 101
According to Ezell, advocacy is about trying to change these two things.
What are policies or practices?
This virtue means being truthful and not trying to mislead people.
What is honesty?
Four Black college students helped launch a wider protest movement in 1960 by sitting at a segregated lunch counter in this North Carolina city.
What is Greensboro?
This type of advocacy focuses on helping a specific client.
What is case advocacy?
Ezell uses this word to describe advocacy that is intentional and has a specific goal.
What is purposive?
Herrick says advocates should treat even their opponents as this kind of person.
Who is a reasoning person?
These helped people build literacy skills while preparing them to register to vote and become more politically involved.
What are Citizenship Schools?
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This type of advocacy tries to make change for a group of people dealing with the same issue.
Trying to change something within your own agency is this type of advocacy.
What is internal advocacy?
This virtue means being willing to stand behind an argument even when doing so may be difficult.
What is courage?
These challenged whether desegregation orders on interstate transportation were actually being followed.
What are the Freedom Rides?
Rimmerman uses this idea when talking about people taking an active role in politics and their communities.
What is citizenship?
Trying to change something in an agency other than your own is this type of advocacy.
What is external advocacy?
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This virtue is about recognizing that the setting and circumstances of an argument matter.
Sit-ins, marches, boycotts, and civil disobedience are all examples of this kind of action.
What is direct action?
This is one of the groups Ezell says advocates can work with or act on behalf of.
Who is a client?
Ezell says the different types of advocacy can overlap, so they are not always this.
What is mutually exclusive?
This virtue involves a willingness to engage in argument so that a just resolution can be reached.
What is cooperation?
Rimmerman argues that this kind of politics can work alongside more conventional ways of participating in politics.
What is disruptive politics?
This is one of the five areas where advocacy can create change. It includes stronger organizations and giving people a greater voice in public decisions.
What is civil society?