This course focuses on various political movements in the history of USA. Taking into consideration that a political movement is a collective effort by a group of citizens to change government policy, social values, and the status quo, the course examines the ideology and theory behind political movements such as: the women’s human rights and suffrage movement (1848-1920), the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) anti-Vietnam war movement (1964-1973), the anti-nuclear movement (1970s & 1980s), the Black Lives Matter movement (2013), and the Me Too movement (2006).
