The History Of Youth Academy Within The Context And History Of Alternative Schooling by Matthew HODGMAN

“…Born from egalitarian ideology and calls for social progressivity during the Civil Rights Movement, alternative education has assumed many forms including institutions specifically established to assist students with disciplinary issues, attendance troubles, substance abuse problems, and learning difficulties. …”
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Quand l’économie écologique dé-nature la justice environnementale by Laurie Gagnon-Bouchard

“…As a first step, this article presents an historical reminder of the emergence of the notion of environmental justice alongside the civil rights movement in the United States. Next, I propose to examine the conceptualization of nature within the two major approaches of the environmental justice literature (ecological economics and socioecology) to see if they participate in the imposition of a Western-centered definition. …”
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The Olympic “Revolt” of 1968 and its Lessons for Contemporary African American Athletic Activism by Douglas Hartmann

“…At a basic level, the exercise reminds us that sport-based activism is not unprecedented and, when it emerges, tends to be connected with the larger social movements of the day (the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and Black Lives Matter more recently). …”
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Regard de James Baldwin, écrivain noir américain et citoyen du monde, sur les Algériens de Belleville dans les années 1950 by Cécile Coquet

“…His observations on racial prejudices, attachment to home culture, and the foregone demise of the French colonial empire in turn gave him new keys to analyze the rise of the Civil Rights Movement back home in the USA, and choose to take an active part in its quest for recognition.…”
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Performing Dissent: Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson before HUAC (1955-1956) by Jodie Childers

“…While Seeger’s testimony in August 1955 championed individual liberty and freedom of speech, using the First Amendment as the foundation for his position, Robeson’s testimony delivered in June 1956 invoked an internationalist sense of social justice, linking left-wing politics, the civil rights movement within the United States, and decolonization efforts around the world.…”
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Getting started in jail, prison, and legal system research by Jason Glenn, Joi Wickliffe, Patricia J. Kelly

“…Because incarcerated persons were systemically exploited by biomedical researchers until reform following the Civil Rights Movement, resulting in their designation as a vulnerable population in the Code of Federal Regulations, enhanced protections are necessary in implementing contemporary research involving incarcerated persons. …”
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Religion, Belonging, and Social Mobility in Civil Rights Era Birmingham, Alabama by Andrew M. Manis

“…This project narrates the story of Greek-Americans' reactions to the historic civil rights movement in perhaps its most important nerve centers, Birmingham, Alabama. …”
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Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…Vampire, werewolf movie codes and motifs are very often recycled in various episodes of the series to problematize current problems in American society such as the women’s liberation movement, the gay and lesbian rights, the civil rights movement etc. All of them provide starkly original variations on the central notions of trouble and evil.The show addresses some the following key issues: which aesthetic, formal and ideological strategies are adopted to represent the different layers of reality? …”
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Review of Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Ritvo, Harriet

“…Thus the labour movement, the civil-rights movement, and the women's movement have all inspired historical subdisciplines. …”
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Image, Discourse, Facts: Southern White Women in the Fight for Desegregation, 1954-1965 by Anne Stefani

“…This strategy enabled them to ease the desegregation process by exerting their influence on their local white communities while the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum. Yet this “lady” activism also had obvious limitations as the ideal of the southern lady imposed constraints likely to confine these female dissenters within their traditional roles as the guardians of white supremacy. …”
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From Obama to Samara: What changes do the Spanish education system and the Roma movement have to make so that one day it will be possible for a Roma woman to be president? by Araceli Silva, Montserrat Yuste, Rocío García, Ramón Flecha

“…The American civil rights movement was started by an African Americanwoman who was a participant in a popular education centre. …”
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On racial capitalism, structural change and the liquidation of Whiteness by Bennett Brazelton

“…To do this, I look at the abolition of slavery, the legislative victories of the civil rights movement and the current realignment of corporate classes in support of police and criminal justice reform as moments of structural change in the narrative history of ‘racial progress’ in the United States. …”
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From Harlem with Love by Leonardo Cascão

“…This essay intends to explore the ways in which The Sweet Flypaper of Life depicts a representation of the neighbourhood of Harlem at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning. It will look at the power that DeCarava’s photographs and Hughes’ text have on creating a specific visuality of African American life, based on the Harlem community, rendering itself to be seen as a family album. …”
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Disability Awareness, Training, and Empowerment: A New Paradigm for Raising Disability Awareness on a University Campus for Faculty, Staff, and Students by Dana Roth, Timothy Pure, Samuel Rabinowitz, Carol Kaufman-Scarborough

“…The starting place for the training was No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (Shapiro, 1993), as well as the research of Cole and Cawthon (2015), Hehir and Schifter (2015), and Oliver (1990). …”
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Racial pay parity in the public sector: the overlooked role of employee mobilization by Perera, IM, King, D

“…As public sector unions gained political influence postwar, their large constituencies of black, blue-collar workers, drawing on both militant and nonviolent tactics of the urbanizing civil rights movement, advocated for improved working conditions. …”

Fiction and Reality in HBO’s Treme: A Narrative Alchemy at the Service of Political Truth by Catherine Dessinges, Dominique Gendrin, Wendy Hajjar

“…It is the oldest African American neighborhood in the United States, the birthplace of the Black civil right movement in the South and the home of Jazz. Categorized as a drama by David Simon, the series is a work of fiction. …”
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Southend Struggles: Converging Narratives Of An Arab/Muslim American Enclave by Sally Howell

“… This paper explores political struggles that took place in the Southend of Dearborn in the 1970s that coincided with the rise of Arab nationalist and Islamic movements in Michigan and linked these interests to those of Arab-American activists involved in the civil rights movement, labor organizing, and other campaigns for social and economic justice. …”
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Baldwin and the Role of the Citizen Artist by Monika Gehlawat

“…I engage with Baldwin’s fiction and his writing about other Black artists working in theater, film, dance, and music during the period of the civil rights movement. Across his career, Baldwin’s prevailing view was that, because of their history, Black artists have the singular, and indeed superlative, capacity to make art as praxis. …”
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A reflection on the clergys’ engagement in politics in light of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe by Peter Masvotore

“…Historically, clergy such as Martin Luther King Jr. and others were active and involved in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. In the context of Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the clergy unlocked their cathedrals and house of worship for strategy and forecasting meetings for additional political reasons. …”
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American Protest Songs in The 1960s Laps Prates Amerika 1960-an by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…Keywords: American protest songs Vietnam War Civil Rights Movement .. . ..…”