Edited by Immanuel Ness
Includes: Topic Finder, articles, biographical sidebars, original documents, photos, tables, master bibliography
Awards:
Best Reference, Library Journal
Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association (ALA)
Reviews:
“The best work of its kind.” American Reference Books Annual
“Ness has compiled an extensive history of many major American social movements, including civil rights, labor, anti-war, environmental, gay/lesbian, and women’s liberation. ... This work offers students and researchers much useful and easily accessible material.” Library Journal
“The first major reference work that seeks to examine social movements in all their complexity, power, and significance, this set expands history by giving voice to the struggles of ordinary people. ... Recommended. Academic libraries.” Choice
Description: From abolition and woman suffrage to civil rights, the minimum wage, and the campaigns for clean air and clean water, struggles to mobilize groups to improve society and promote justice are among the enduring themes of American history. Whether one is studying economics, labor, government, politics, current events, or global issues, it is impossible to understand the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in the United States without understanding the role of social movements.
This wide-ranging reference resource examines every significant social movement in American history, covering each movement’s goals, tactics, and effects, as well as its successes and failures. The work also examines the interrelationships among different movements and how they shaped American politics, culture, and society. Written for readers at all levels—but geared directly to the high-school social studies curriculum—Encyclopedia of American Social Movements includes biographical portraits of the leaders and key figures of the nation’s social movements, as well as a wide variety of original documents.
Contents
Introduction: American Social Movements
Abolition: Humanitarian and Revolutionary Ideas
Abolition: Moderate, Radical, and Militant
Abortion Rights Movement
African-American Women’s Movement, 1865–1920s
African-American Women’s Movement, 1930s–1940s
African-American Women’s Movement, 1950–Present
Agrarian Socialist Movement, 1890s–1920
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power: The ACT UP Movement
Alcoholics Anonymous
American Agriculture Movement
American Indian Movement
Anarchism and the Labor Movement
Animal Rights Movement
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Anti-Catholic Activism
Anti-Drug Movement
Anti-Gay Rights Legislation
Anti-Lynching Movement
Antinuclear Movement
Antipoverty and Social Welfare Campaigns: Introduction
Anti-Preparedness Movement
Anti-Rape Movement
Anti-Rent Movement, 1830s–1860s
Antislavery Movement: Introduction
Antislavery Resistance: Overview
Antislavery Movement, 1700s–1830s
Antislavery Movement, 1830s–1840s
Antislavery Movement, 1840s–1850s
Antislavery Movement, 1860–1865
Antislavery, North-South Reactions to
Anti-Sweatshop Movement
Anti-Vice Campaigns, Early
Antiwar/Protest Movements: Introduction
Antiwar Movement: Overview
Antiwar Movement: World War I
Antiwar Movement: World War II
Antiwar Movement: Vietnam War
Antiwar Movement, Twenty-First Century
Appropriate Technology Movement
Asian-American Movement
Birth Control Movement
Bisexual Movement: History
Black Lung Movement
Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement
Brookwood Labor College
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Buddhism in America
Cannery Workers Movement
Civil Rights Movement: Introduction
Civil Rights Movement, 1865–1910
Civil Rights Movement, 1910–1930
Civil Rights Movement, 1930–1953
Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970
Civil Rights Movement, 1970–1990
Civil Rights Movement, 1990–2000
Civil Rights Movement, Twenty-First Century
Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence and the
Colorado Cooperative Colony Movement
Communist Movement
Congress of Racial Equality
Conservation Movement, 1880s–1920
Convict Labor, Movement to Abolish
Counterculture Movement, 1960s–1970s
Disabilities Movement
Douglass, Frederick and Antislavery
Draft Resisters in Canada During the Vietnam War
Eight-Hour Day Movement
Environmental Justice Movement
Environmental Movement: Introduction
Environmental Movement, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Equal Rights Amendment
Ethical Culture Movement
Ethnic and Group Identity Movements: Introduction
Eugenics
Fair Trade Coffee Campaign
Farm Workers Labor Movement
Farmer-Labor Party
Farmers’ Alliance Movement
Feminist/Lesbian Separatist Movement
Free Blacks: Foundations of Polities
Free Speech Movement
Gage, Matilda Joslyn and Woman Suffrage
Garment Workers Movement
Garvey, Marcus and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Global Justice Movement: Introduction
Global Justice Movement: Overview
Grange Movement
Gray Panthers
Greenbacker Movement, 1870s–1880s
Health Food Movement
Homeopathy Movement, 1870–Present
Hotel and Restaurant Workers Movement
Immigrant Exclusion, 1870s–1920s
Indian Mascots and Playing Indian
Indigenous People and Environmentalism
Intentional Communities
Knights of Labor
Ku Klux Klan
Labor Culture
Labor Law
Labor Movement: Introduction
Labor Movement, 1600–1790
Labor Movement, 1790–1860
Labor Movement, 1861–1877
Labor Movement, 1877–1919
Labor Movement, 1920–1934
Labor Movement, 1935–1947
Labor Movement, 1948–1981
Labor Movement and the Vietnam War
Labor Movement, 1981–Present
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement: Introduction
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, 1870s–1920s
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, 1920s–1969
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, 1969–Present
Living Wage Movement
Mexican Americans and the Chicano Movement
Militia Movement
Miners’ Movement in the West
Missionary Movements
Moral Reform Movements: Introduction
Moral and Dress Reform Movement, 1800–1869
Moral Reform Movements in Postwar America
Mutualista Movement
Native American Movement: Introduction
Native American Identity and Literature
Native American Movement, Colonial Era–1800s
Native American Movement, World War I to the Indian New Deal
Native American Activism from Alcatraz to NAGPRA
Nativist and Extreme Right-Wing Movements: Introduction
Nativism, Post–Civil War
New Harmony Movement
Nonpartisan League, 1915–1920s
Nonviolent Direct Action
Nonwhite Ethnic Identity Movements
Organized Labor, Consumption, and Boycotts
Pan-Indianism Movement
PATCO and Replacement Workers
Pentecostal Movement
Poor People’s Movements
Popular Health Movement
Populist Movement, 1890s
Progressive Movement
Prohibition and Repeal
Prostitution Reform
Public Workers Movement
Railroad Workers Movement
Regulator Movements and Other Rebellions, 1760s–1790s
Religious and Utopian Movements: Introduction
Religious Movements: Overview
Religious Movements, 1730s–1830s
Religious Movements, 1830s–1870
Religious Movements, 1870s–Present
Rural Social and Political Movements: Introduction
Rural Utopian Movements, 1820s–1850s
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Senior Citizens Movement
Settlement House Movement
Social Gospel Movement
Southern Exodusters Movement, 1860s–1870s
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
Sovereignty and the Self-Determination Movement
Steelworkers Movement
Strikes of 1934
Student Movements: Introduction
Student Movements: Overview
Students for a Democratic Society Movement
Syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World
Tent City Movements
Transgender Activism
U.S. Indian Policy in the West
Unemployed Councils
Unemployment Activism
Unemployment Movement
United Parcel Service Strike
Vietnam Antiwar Campus Activism
Weatherman Underground Organization
Wildcat Strikes
Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848–1920
Women and the Anti-Imperialist Movement
Women and the Progressive Movement
Women’s Cooperative Housekeeping Movement
Women’s Home Demonstration Movement, 1920s–1930
Women’s Liberation Movement, 1965–1975
Women’s Movement: Introduction
Women’s Movement and Social Activism, 1865–1920
Women’s Movement, 1920–1960
Women’s Movement, 1960–1990
Women’s Movement, 1990–Present
Women’s Social Movement, 1800–1869
Women’s Studies
Working Women’s Movement, Early Twentieth Century
World Trade Organization Protests in Seattle
World War I and Civil Liberties
YMCA and YWCA
Master Bibliography
