Social Movements 101
This is an organized effort to promote different types of change.
What is a social movement?
The Black Panther Party is an example of this type of social movement.
What is a revolutionary social movement?
The bus boycott of 1955 was started in this city.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
The U.S. allowed Mexicans to work in the U.S. during this war, with the promise of citizenship when the war was over.
What is World War II?
Latino and African American students both experienced a significant amount of this in their schools.
What is segregation?
Researcher Douglass McAdam has identified these three primary characteristics of social movements.
What is reactive, proactive, and constructive?
The #MeToo movement is an example of this type of social movement.
What is a reformative social movement?
In April 1960, this organization was started to formalize sit-in tactics.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
These two people joined their two organizations to create the United Farm Workers.
Who is Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta?
What are sit-ins?
These are the four identified "stages" of a social movement.
What is preparation, protest, organization, and mobilization?
Radical Feminism is a type of this social movement.
The Freedom Rides, designed to test how well integration was working, began in this city.
What is Washington D.C?
This Poet wrote:
“La raza!
Méjicano!
Español!
Latino!
Chicano!
Or whatever I call myself,
I look the same
I feel the same
I cry
And
Sing the same.”
Who is Rodolfo Corky Gonzales?
These two organizations joined forces to help fight for the rights of students.
What are the Brown Berets and MAYO?
This is the idea that everybody, or at least a large portion of the population, can know what is happening and what needs to be done.
What is shared consciousness?
The Native American Independence movement is a type of this social movement.
What is a redemptive social movement?
The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 by these two people.
Who is Bobby Seale and Huey Newton?
The Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento, advocated social and political empowerment through this concept.
What is "chicanismo" or cultural nationalism?
This act in 1965 was expanded in 1975 to extend rights to not just African Americans but also to Hispanic students.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965 & 1975?
This type of social movement is a form of activism that rejects the way things are and advocates for radical change.
What is a revolutionary social movement?
Women's Suffrage is a type of this social movement.
What is a redemptive social movement?
This person stated "A revolutionary wants land so he can set up his own nation, an independent nation. These Negroes aren’t asking for any nation—they’re trying to crawl back on the plantation… If you’re afraid of black nationalism, you’re afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism" in 1963.
Who is Malcolm X?
This organization fought for the rights of Hispanic Americans.
What is La Raza Unida Political Party?
This Supreme Court case ruled that universities could not use Affirmative Action to limit Hispanics in Universities.
What is University of California v. Bakke?