SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: League Of United Latin American Citizens, Redlining, Morisco

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Social movements: organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group/society. Take place outside of institutional politics; goals may not be attainable through conventional means. Social change and the civil rights movement, 1954-1968: shared grievances. In 1950, over 50% of african americans lived in poverty: redlining, housing covenants, and fha policies favored whites, literacy tests, polls taxes and other tactics kept blacks from voting. Institutional segregation: hope (and rising expectations, window of opportunity, black military service during wwii, (cid:862)third world(cid:863) (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts for i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)ce fro(cid:373) colo(cid:374)ial rule after. Wwii: growing black middle class, more african americans going to college, getting degrees, precipitating events, supreme court decision in brown vs. board of education, topeka, kansas, 1954: segregation is unconstitutional, montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956, people were taking action and were willing to risk their lives to fight for the civil rights movement, supreme court decision in brown vs. board of education, topeka, kansas,