This four-volume set examines every significant social movement in American history, covering each movement's goals, tactics, and impact, as well as its successes and failures.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: American Social Movements
• A
• Abolition: Humanitarian and Revolutionary Ideas
• Abolition: Moderate, Radical, and Militant
• Abortion Rights Movement
• African-American Women's Movement, 1865–1920s
• African-American Women's Movement, 1930s–1940s
• African-American Women's Movement, 1950–Present
• Agrarian Socialist Movement, 1890s–1920
• AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power: The ACT UP Movement
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• American Agriculture Movement
• Anarchism and the Labor Movement
• Animal Rights Movement
• Anti-Apartheid Movement
• Anti-Catholic Activism
• Anti-Drug Movement
• Anti-Gay Rights Legislation
• Anti-Lynching Movement
• Antinuclear Movement
• Antipoverty Movements: Introduction
• Anti-Preparedness Movement
• Anti-Rape Movement
• Anti-Rent Movement, 1830s–1860s
• Antislavery Movement, 1700s–1830s
• Antislavery Movement, 1830s–1840s
• Antislavery Movement, 1840s–1850s
• Antislavery Movement, 1860–1865
• Antislavery Movement: Introduction
• Antislavery Resistance: Overview
• Anti-Sweatshop Movement
• Antiwar Movement, Twenty-First Century
• Antiwar Movement: Overview
• Antiwar Movement: Vietnam War
• Antiwar Movement: World War I
• Antiwar Movement: World War II
• Antiwar/Protest Movements: Introduction
• Appropriate Technology Movement
• Asian-American Movement
• B
• Birth Control Movement
• Bisexual Movement: History
• Black Lung Movement
• Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement
• Brookwood Labor College
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• Buddhism in America
• C
• Cannery Workers Movement
• Civil Rights Movement, 1865–1910
• Civil Rights Movement, 1910–1930
• Civil Rights Movement, 1930–1953
• Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970
• Civil Rights Movement, 1970–1990
• Civil Rights Movement, 1990–2000
• Civil Rights Movement, Twenty-First Century
• Civil Rights Movement: Introduction
• Colorado Cooperative Colony Movement
• Communist Movement
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Conservation Movement, 1880s–1920
• Convict Labor, Movement to Abolish
• Counterculture Movement, 1960s–1970s
• D
• Disabilities Movement
• Draft Resisters in Canada During the Vietnam War
• E
• Early Anti-Vice Campaigns
• Eight-Hour Day Movement
• Environmental Justice Movement
• Environmental Movement, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Environmental Movement: Introduction
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Ethical Culture Movement
• Ethnic and Group Identity Movements: Introduction
• Eugenics Movement
• F
• Fair Trade Coffee Campaign
• Farm Workers Labor Movement
• Farmer-Labor Party
• Farmers' Alliance Movement
• Feminist/Lesbian Separatism Movement
• Frederick Douglass and Antislavery
• Free Blacks: Foundations of Polities
• Free Speech Movement
• G
• Garment Workers Movement
• Global Justice Movement: Introduction
• Global Justice Movement: Overview
• Grange Movement
• Gray Panthers Movement
• Greenbacker Movement, 1870s–1880s
• H
• Health Food Movement
• Homeopathy Movement, 1870–Present
• Hotel and Restaurant Workers Movement
• I
• Immigrant Exclusion, 1870s–1920s
• Indian Mascots and Playing Indian
• Indian Sovereignty and the Self-Determination Movement
• Indigenous People and Environmentalism
• Intentional Communities
• K
• Knights of Labor
• Ku Klux Klan
• L
• Labor Culture
• Labor Law
• Labor Movement and the Vietnam War
• Labor Movement, 1600–1790
• Labor Movement, 1790–1860
• Labor Movement, 1861–1877
• Labor Movement, 1877–1919
• Labor Movement, 1920–1934
• Labor Movement, 1935–1947
• Labor Movement, 1948–1981
• Labor Movement, 1981–Present
• Labor Movement: Introduction
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, 1870s–1920s
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, 1920s–1969
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, 1969–Present
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement: Introduction
• Living Wage Movement
• M
• Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
• Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman Suffrage History
• Mexican Americans and the Chicano Movement
• Militia Movement
• Miners' Movement in the West
• Missionary Movements
• Moral and Dress Reform Movement, 1800–1869
• Moral Reform and Health Movements: Introduction
• Moral Reform Movements in Postwar America
• Mutualista Movement
• N
• Native American Activism from Alcatraz to NAGPRA
• Native American Identity and Literature
• Native American Movement, Colonial Era-1800s
• Native American Movement, World War I to the Indian New Deal
• Native American Movement: Introduction
• Nativism, Post-Civil War
• Nativist and Extreme Right-Wing Movements: Introduction
• New Harmony Movement
• Nonpartisan League, 1915–1920s
• Nonviolent Direct Action
• Nonwhite Ethnic Identity Movements
• North-South Reactions to Antislavery
• O
• Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement
• Organized Labor, Consumption, and Boycotts
• P
• Pan-Indianism Movement
• PATCO and Replacement Workers
• Pentecostal Movement
• Poor People's Movements
• Popular Health Movement
• Populist Movement, 1890s
• Progressive Movement
• Prohibition and Repeal
• Prostitution Reform
• Public Workers Movement
• R
• Racial Violence and the Civil Rights Movement
• Railroad Workers Movement
• Regulator Movements and Other Rebellions, 1760s–1790s
• Religious and Utopian Movements: Introduction
• Religious Movements, 1730s–1830s
• Religious Movements, 1830s–1870
• Religious Movements, 1870s–Present
• Religious Movements: Overview
• Rural Social and Political Movements: Introduction
• Rural Utopian Movements, 1820s–1850s
• S
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case
• Senior Citizens Movement
• Settlement House Movement
• Social Gospel Movement
• Southern Exodusters Movement, 1860s–1870s
• Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
• Steelworkers Movement
• Strikes of 1934
• Student Movements: Introduction
• Student Movements: Overview
• Students for a Democratic Society Movement
• Syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World
• T
• Tea Party Movement
• Tent City Movements
• The American Indian Movement
• Transgender Activism
• U
• U.S. Indian Policy in the West: From Sand Creek to Wounded Knee
• Unemployed Councils
• Unemployment Activism
• Unemployment Movement
• United Parcel Service Strike
• V
• Vietnam Antiwar Campus Activism
• W
• Weatherman Underground Organization
• Wildcat Strikes
• Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848–1920
• Women and the Anti-Imperialist Movement
• Women and the Progressive Movement
• Women's Home Demonstration Movement, 1920s–1930
• Women's Liberation Movement, 1965–1975
• Women's Movement and Social Activism, 1865–1920
• Women's Movement, 1920–1960
• Women's Movement, 1960–1990
• Women's Movement, 1990–Present
• Women's Movement: Introduction
• Women's Social Movement, 1800–1869
• Women's Cooperative Housekeeping Movement
• Women's Studies
• Working Women's Movement, Early Twentieth Century
• World Trade Organization Protests in Seattle
• World War I and Civil Liberties
• Y
• YMCA and YWCA
• Master Bibliography