Movements Worldwide - 8 SS - Civil Rights - LibGuides at The American School of Doha

Assignment

Civil Rights Movement: Creating Lasting Change through a Social Movement (including rubric)

Worldwide Movements

List of Movements

Bolivarianism

Occupy Movement

Cultural Revolution

Black Lives Matter

Race Riots of 1964-'71

Rock Against Racisim

Nuclear Freeze Movement

Million Mom March and anti-gun movement

Tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan (2005)

Orange revolution in Ukraine (2005)

Arab Spring

anti-GMO’s movement

anti-Vietnam war movement/peaceniks

KONY2012

Anti-Apartheid Movement

Black Panther Movement

Black Power movement

Chicano Movement

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Disability rights movement

Environmental movement

Fair trade movement

Farm Worker Movement

Food Not Bombs

Free Speech Movement

Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brazil

Nazism

Pro-independence movements in Russian Civil War

Pro-Life movement

Students for a Democratic Society

Tea Party movement

Temperance movement

Tibetan independence movement

Women's suffrage movement

Zapatista movement

McCarthyism

Abolitionism

Primary Source Collections

Say it Plain, Say it Loud - African American Speeches
Documenting the American South - books, letters, oral histories
Abolition Movement
Frederick Douglass Papers
American Slave Narratives
The Amistad Case
Slave Voices

Books from Our Library

MORE BOOKS ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Taking Action to Help the Environment by Eric Braun
Call Number: 363.7 BRA
ISBN: 9781467793926
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Do you ever worry about the environment? Do you wish you could help make things better? The environmental activists profiled in this book do that every day. Explore the stories of inspiring kids and adults and learn how to start making a difference yourself. Anyone can change the world!
Workers' Rights by Lynn Peppas
Call Number: 330 PEP
ISBN: 9780778728634
Publication Date: 2016-08-25
From limiting the working day to eight hours to forming unions and protecting children, this title weaves through the history of workers' rights using engaging primary sources. Following multiple perspectives of differing groups including women, children, and immigrants, readers will gain an understanding of the social and economic conditions under which change was demanded, and learn about the essential movements for better working conditions and the people who led the way. A critical look at the rights of different working groups today encourages readers to explore the steps that still need to be taken to achieve working equality across the globe.
Women's Suffrage Movement by Jill Keppeler
Call Number: 324.6 KEP
ISBN: 9781499428452
Publication Date: 2016-12-15
For most of history, women have been confined to their households, and to lives without equal rights or equal opportunities. This volume introduces readers to the women of the suffrage movement, the defining movement for women's rights, especially the right to vote. Primary sources and photographs will show readers firsthand how the challenges and successes of this movement shaped the lives of women across the United States. Readers will also learn about the inequality that still exists for women, and how they can change this injustice in the future.

Websites

Civil Rights Movement
Basic background of the Civil Rights movement with the mention of highlighted events from that time period (articles, videos, and speeches).
Civil Rights Movement
Another source of information.
Cultural Revolution
Black Lives Matter
The official Black Lives Matter site created in 2012.
The rise of Black Lives Matter: Trying to break the cycle of violence and silence
A 2015 CNN article that explains how the Black Lives Matter movement became a movement. Still relevant today.
1964: Civil Rights Battles
An article in the Atlantic about the race riots including some powerful black & white images.
Ukraine's two different revolutions
A comparison of the Orange Revolution and the start of another revolution nine years later.
Ukraine's Orange Revolution
A pdf on the Orange Revolution printed from the Foreign Affairs (published by the Council on Foreign Relations).
The Women’s Rights Movement, 1848–1920
Women's suffrage
The Fight for Women's Suffrage
Article and videos
Joseph R. McCarthy
McCarthyism: videos & articles
Kony 2012: what's the real story?
A 2012 article and a 28-minute film about the Ugandan children who were abducted by a warlord.
Million Mom March
Video of the first Million Mom March in 2000
The Arab Spring: A Year Of Revolution
2011 audio recording and article from NPR
These Pro-Lifers Are Headed to the Women’s March on Washington
GMO Facts
Anti Gmo
Huffington Post article
Black Panther Party
Farmworker Movement Documentation project
Photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents
The Landless Workers Movement
From the World Development Movement against injustices