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Social Movements Mind Map
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1950s and 1960s
Washington, D. C
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Little Rock Nine and many others.
was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
women's movement
diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and '70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women.
1960s and '70s
Betty Friedan gathered feminists, liberals, Washington insiders, and other activists
Seneca Falls, New York
The Nonviolent Movement
1996
Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, while being nonviolent.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION
1960s
Chicago
African-American activists
nonviolent direct action became the most successful protest strategy in the modern civil rights movement.
Bus Boycott
December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956,
Montgomery
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr.
civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating
THE MOVEMENT TO LEGALIZE ABORTION
January 1973
New York
New York NOW’s Abortion Committee
The movement to re-legalize abortion predates the women’s movement, as physicians and clergy members, mostly men
LABOR MOVEMENT
1935–1947
Midwest
within the American Federation of Labor (AFL), John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and other unions
an attempt to encourage
the growth of industrial unionism within the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Chicano/Chicana Movement
1960s
East Los Angeles
Activist Students
inspired by prior acts of resistance among people of Mexican descent, especially of Pachucos in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Black Power movement, that worked to embrace a Chicano/a identity and worldview
American Indian Movement
1968-1978
first sought to improve conditions for recently urbanized Native Americans.
grassroots activists
Minneapolis
New Left and Antiwar Movemen
1960s and 1970s
Japan
Native American, Chicano, and Asian Americans
consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.
Memphis sanitation workers' strike
February 12, 1968
Memphis
Martin Luther King Jr.
to demand better working conditions and higher pay
the March on Washington
1963
Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
Women’s Liberation Movement
1960s-1980s
West
alignment of women and feminist
sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women
Free Speech Movement,
1964–65
California
University of California, Berkeley
demanded their right to free speech and academic freedom.
desegregation movement
1954
Topeka
Brown v. Bd. of Education of Topeka
This was the beginning of the end of state-sponsored segregation.