Concept information
Preferred term
political and social movements (North America)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Abbie Hoffman
- abolitionist movements
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- agrarian socialist movement
- alternative bookstores
- American Gold Star Mothers
- American Revolution
- Anne and Carl Braden
- anti-busing movement
- anti-death penalty movement
- Antigonish movement
- anti-immigrant politics
- anti-nuclear movement
- anti-prison movement
- Arab American activism
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
- Attica prison revolt
- ballot initiatives
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Spock
- Billionaires for Bush
- Bill of Rights
- black lung movement
- Campus Antiwar Network
- Chautauqua
- Chicago Democratic Convention Demonstrations
- Chicago Seven
- Children's Defense Fund
- CIA repression of social movements
- Cindy Sheehan
- Clamshell Alliance
- Clarence Darrow
- code pink
- Communist Party USA
- community action programs
- community organizing
- counter-recruitment
- Daniel Ellsberg
- David Dellinger
- draft resistance
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Federal Housing Administration
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- gangs and activism
- George McGovern
- G.I. Bill
- GI movement
- government suppression of social activism
- grange movement
- Gray Panthers
- great society
- greenback movement
- gun politics
- Habitat for Humanity
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry George
- Highlander Center
- H. L. Mencken
- Hollywood blacklists
- Homestead Riot
- Howard Zinn
- Huey P. Long
- Hull-House
- Industrial Areas Foundation
- Jacob S. Coxey
- Jane Fonda
- Jimmy Carter
- John Brown
- John F. Kennedy
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- living wage movement
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Majory Stoneman Douglas
- Mario Savio
- Medea Benjamin
- Michael Moore
- military-industrial complex
- militia movements
- minutemen project
- Morris Dees
- Mother (Mary) Jones
- Myles Horton
- National Rifle Association
- new deal
- Non-Partisan League
- Norman Thomas
- Operation Rescue
- operation solidarity
- Paul Wellstone
- Peace Corps
- philanthropy for social action
- police brutality
- Poor People's Campaign
- prison-industrial complex
- professional activist organizations
- Public Citizen
- Ramsey Clark
- resistance to drug laws
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert Lafollette
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Samantha Smith
- Samuel Cotton
- sanctuary movement
- Saul Alinsky
- School of the Americas
- School of the Americas Watch
- Shays' Rebellion
- Southern Student Organizing Committee
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- third-party politics
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- Tom Hayden
- United for a Fair Economy
- United for Peace and Justice
- urban uprisings in the United States
- Veterans for Peace
- voices in the wilderness
- Volunteers in Service to America
- Walter Lippmann
- Weather Underground
- welfare rights movement
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Young Americans for Freedom
- young patriots organization
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/political_and_social_movements_(North_America)
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