Direct Action to Voter Registration: Case Study
Timeline case study of direct action to voter registration follows the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee SNCC (US) from 1960 – 1962.
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Movements_Campaigns – Civil rights
Spectrum of Allies
Use a spectrum-of-allies analysis to identify the social groups (students, workers) that are affected by your issue, and locate those groups along a spectrum, from active opposition to active allies, so you can focus your efforts on shifting those groups closer to your position.
Organising Manual for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963
This organizing manual was written by Bayard Rustin & distributed for the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest civil rights rallies in US history.
TED talk: What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement
TED talk about the overlaps & tensions between the gay rights & the civil rights movements & how the 2 struggles intertwine and propel each other forward.
Lessons from the Greensboro Student Sit-ins
The Greensboro student sit-ins had nonviolence at their heart and succeeded, not only in their immediate goal, but also in building a lasting organisation in the SNCC. It stands now as yet another example of the successful use of nonviolence to stand against oppression.
Building 21st Century Movements
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Founder and former Executive Director of SumofUs, at Progress 2015 with a series of movement case studies challenging us to be technological innovators and to bring our social change work to the cutting edge of the current century.