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- Occupy Wall Street. It began in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, and quickly spread to hundreds of cities. Within a few weeks, police had pushed protesters out of local parks.
- The Fight for $15. The idea of a $15 minimum wage was a pipe dream in 2010 but now is mainstream. A Brookings Institution report released in November 2019 found that more than 53 million people, or 44 percent of all workers ages 18 to 64, earn low hourly wages.
- Black Lives Matter. It started as a hashtag in 2013, led by three black women activists in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman.
- Women’s March and #MeToo. The largest protest in U.S. history (four million-plus people in cities across the country) occurred the day after Trump’s inauguration (January 21, 2017), re-energizing the women’s movement.
Jun 11, 2022 · From equal pay for women's soccer to banning conversion therapy, 2022 saw communities rallying together for social justice and human rights. See how people protested against attacks on abortion, LGBTQ, and gun reform in the U.S. and beyond.
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Explore the historical geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics since the late 19th century, including radical, civil rights, labor, women's, and more. See maps, charts, and data tables showing the locations, activities, and outcomes of each movement across time and space.
Mar 8, 2023 · A Pew Research Center survey found that about 6 in 10 American women say “feminist” describes them very or somewhat well. A majority of Americans – 64% – say feminism is empowering and 42% ...
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- The Summer of Protest and A Pandemic
- Teens, Tiktok and Trump
- Scarce Moments of Joy
George Floyd’s death on Memorial Dayset in motion a national reckoning with the systemic inequity that Black Americans have been subjected to in this country for centuries. Thousands took to the streets in protest of anti-Black racism and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “I do think that white Americans had a different experience with...
Online activism also took on politics this summer -- one notable organized effort was an attempt to affect the attendance numbers at President Donald Trump’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally in June. K-pop stans, or ardent fans of Korean pop music, joined forces with TikTok users to attempt to troll the president by reserving tickets to the rally with no int...
Amid the global pandemic and moments of protest and fear, were sparse moments of joy. Meme culture continued to thrive in quarantine, gifting the internet instant classics such as the “Laughing Jordan,” a series of images from the ESPN documentary series “The Last Dance.” Scores of people fell in love with the “Strawberry Dress,” a nearly $500 Liri...
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May 24, 2021 · The book “When Movements Anchor Parties,” by the Johns Hopkins political scientist Daniel Schlozman, examines why some social movements (labor in the thirties, the Christian right in the ...
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Jul 23, 2021 · Anti-draft demonstration, 1968, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd. The John W. Kluge Center and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University are proud to release Social Movements and American Democracy in the 21 st Century, a discussion moderated by Theda Skocpol and featuring panelists Hahrie Han, Dana Fisher, and Leah Wright Rigueur.
