Gordon, a noted historian of the United States, seeks to understand how social movements arise and operate, in the belief that these movements have changed the world as significantly as have wars or ...

Giugni, Marco (2004). Social Protest and Policy Change: Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Comparative Perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Social justice movements play an important role in creating policy reforms and shifting social norms, but often face conflicts that mirror broader social struggles for equality and liberation. Social ...

Garza, Cullors, and Opal Tometi, a human rights activist, then took the rallying cry and leveraged it into a global, influential social justice movement that spread far beyond its own organization.