SOC 2018 HISTORY OF SOCIAL ACTION
This course examines the history and legacy of social movements in the United States, starting with the revolutionary movement for independence. The abolitionist, suffrage, anti-imperialist, labor, anti racist, civil liberties, antiwar, feminist, environmental, gay/lesbian, human rights/global justice, anti death penalty struggles are among the movements to be studied. Howard Zim's justice, anti death penalty struggles are among the movements to be studied. Howard Zim's justice People's History of the United States will be used to provide the historical contexts for these movements. There is also a weekly lecture series in the evening organized to run parallel with the course, with leading activists talking about their experiences in many of the movements studied in class.