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1 online resource |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 22, 2015). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antislavery Movement; Introduction; Antislavery Movement, 1700s-1830s; Antislavery Movement, 1830s-1840s; Antislavery Movement, 1840s-1850s; Antislavery Movement, 1860-1865; Abolition: Humanitarian and Revolutionary Ideas; Moderate, Radical, and Militant Abolition; Frederick Douglass and Antislavery; Free Blacks: Foundations of Polities; Antislavery Resistance: An Overview; North-South Reactions to Antislavery; 2. Civil Rights Movement; Introduction |
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Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1910Movement to Abolish Convict Labor; Anti-Lynching Movement; Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1930; Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association Movement; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1953; Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970; Nonviolent Direct Action; Congress of Racial Equality; Civil Rights Movement, 1970-1990; Racial Violence and the Civil Rights Movement; Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement; Anti-Apartheid Movement; Civil Rights Movement, 1990-2000; Civil Rights Movement, Twenty-First Century; 3. Women's Movement |
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IntroductionWomen's Social Movement, 1800-1869; Moral and Dress Reform Movement, 1800-1869; Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman Suffrage History; Popular Health Movement; Women's Cooperative Housekeeping Movement; Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920; Women's Movement and Social Activism, 1865-1920; African-American Women's Movement, 1865-1920s; Women and the Progressive Movement; Women and the Anti-Imperialist Movement; Working Women's Movement, Early Twentieth Century; Birth Control Movement; Women's Movement, 1920-1960; Equal Rights Amendment; Abortion Rights Movement |
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African-American Women's Movement, 1930s-1940sAfrican-American Women's Movement, 1950-Present; Women's Movement, 1960-1990; Women's Studies Movement; Women's Liberation Movement, 1965-1975; Women's Movement, 1990-Present; Feminist/Lesbian Separatism Movement; Anti-Rape Movement; 4. Labor Movement; Introduction; Labor Movement, 1600-1790; Labor Movement, 1790-1860; Labor Movement, 1861-1877; Knights of Labor; Miners' Movement in the West; Anarchism and the Labor Movement; Labor Movement. 1877-1919; Eight-Hour Day Movement; Syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World |
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Railroad Workers MovementSteelworkers Movement; Garment Workers Movement; Labor Movement, 1920-1934; Communist Movement; Sacco and Vanzetti; Unemployment Movement; Unemployed Councils; Strikes of 1934; Brookwood Labor College; Labor Movement, 1935-1947; Labor Law; Cannery Workers Movement; Labor Movement, 1948-1981; Public Workers Movement; Labor Movement and the Vietnam War; Black Lung Movement; Labor Movement. 1981-Present; PATCO and Replacement Workers; United Parcel Service Strike; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Movement; Wildcat Strikes; Organized Labor, Consumption, and Boycotts |
| Summary |
This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice. |
| Access |
Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland on library computers. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL |
| Subject |
Social movements -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Social change -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Social justice -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ness, Immanuel, editor.
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Bronner, Stephen Eric, 1949- author of foreword.
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Piven, Frances Fox, author of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ness, Immanuel Encyclopedia of American Social Movements Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,c2015 9780765680457 |
| ISBN |
9781317471899 (electronic bk.) |
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131747189X (electronic bk.) |
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