SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Jim Crow Laws, Voting Rights Act Of 1965
17 Apr 2017
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Social movements - organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society. Take place outside of institutional politics; goals may not be attainable through conventional means. Social changes and the civil rights movement, 1954-1968. In 1950, over 50% of african americans lived in poverty. Redlining, housing covenants, and fha policies favored whites. Literacy tests, poll taxes and other tactics kept blacks from voting. In the south, jim crow laws institutionalized segregation. Third world movements for independence from colonial rule after ww2. Supreme court decision in brown v. board of education, topeka, kansas, 1954. Rosa parks and the myth of the activist hero. Rosa parks was a shy seamstress who had had enough. Her lone determination inspired the bus boycott: network ties. She was a long-time activist, secretary of local naacp chapter. Boycott resulted from extensive social organization - multiplexity. Black churches, naacp, black colleges, congress of racial equality (core: movements resources.
