Whether it’s progress on civil rights, ending child labor, or securing women the vote, history tells us that major advances in American life have come from citizens’ movements organizing from below rather than from timid politicians cutting deals on high.
Three Times When the World Broke Open– and Two When it Might Again
Popular uprising have ramifications that go beyond immediate legislative results, and they can alter the climate of political debate.
Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized— even when they were effective.
Like Bernie Sanders today, Martin Luther King, Jr. considered launching a presidential campaign to oppose military interventionism and promote democratic socialism. Here’s why he decided against it.
Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.
Reconsidering Poor People’s Movements in the wake of mass uprising.
After Occupy and other mass uprisings, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between “movements” and “organizations”—and in harnessing the power of both.
It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change.