Seven social movements that changed America / Linda Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Linda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Social change--United States--History--20th century.

Social change.

Social justice--United States--History--20th century.

Social justice.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

515 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

7 social movements that changed America

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.

Summary:

A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed 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 movement, Gordon then scrutinizes the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s. Profiles of two Depression-era movements follow--the Townsend campaign that brought us Social Security and the creation of unemployment aid. Proceeding then to the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, which inspired the civil rights movement and launched Martin Luther King Jr.'s career, the narrative barrels into the 1960s-70s with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers' union. The concluding chapter illumines the 1970s women's liberation movement through the dramatic story of the Boston-area organizations Bread and Roses and the Combahee River Collective. Separately and together, these seven chapters animate American history, reminding us of the power of collective activism.-- Publisher description

Contents:

Creating Free Spaces

From Ku Klux Klan to American fascists, 1920s-1930s

Trustees of the nation

Shareholders in relief

Leadership and followership

Leadership and followership continued

Consciousness-raising as activism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-496) and index.

Other Format:

Online version : Gordon, Linda. Seven social movements that changed America.

ISBN:

9781631493713

163149371X

OCLC:

1500074047