Social Movements Flashcards
A struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
Civil Rights Movement
traced back to 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, where feminist pioneers issued the Declaration of Sentiments.Thirty years later in 1878, Susan B. Anthony wrote and submitted an amendment to the United States Constitution that would grant women the right to vote.
Women’s Rights Movement
Movement in the 1950s. Was facilitated by the development of zoning laws, redlining and numerous innovations in transport. After World War II availability of FHA loans stimulated a housing boom in America.
Rise of Suburbs
Reached its apex in the 1930s and 1940s: the CIO was created and union membership shot up from nearly zero to over 35% of the labor force by the end of the Second World War. This movement fought for Health and safety regulations, child labor laws, the minimum wage, and the eight-hour workday.
Labor Movement
Social movement started by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. it exposed the dangerous environmental effects of pesticides, particularly DDT. The 1960s and 1970s saw unprecedented pushes for legislation to protect the environment, inspired by the actions of everyday people. Since then, the need for a strong environmental movement has only grown. And as climate change accelerates, more heroes emerge, including the indigenous people and their allies have won significant victories against corporations in Canada, the United States, and around the world.
The Environmental Movement
Movement led by FDR to bring America out of the Great Depression. Many programs were made to provide jobs for American citizens including the WPA, CCC, PWA, etc.
New Deal Program
This man was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Spoke for the Civil Rights from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Matin Luther King Jr.
a Jewish immigrant labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. He founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization’s president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
Samuel Gompers
an American labor union leader, politician and attorney, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s. He was elected mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for three 2-year terms, starting in 1878
Terance Powderly
Movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals; seeks to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between consenting adults; and calls for an end to discrimination against gay men and lesbians in employment, credit lending, housing, public accommodations, and other areas of life.
Gay Rights Movement
American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17
Susan B. Anthony
