HSERV 200 - Social Justice Movements Research Paper - Prof. Spencer: Your Assignment

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Social justice movements have played a crucial role in advocating for equality, human rights, and systemic change across various societies. This 4-6 page APA referenced paper will explore the origins, key principles, and impacts of one major social justice movement. This paper includes research on how groups in the U.S. have worked to confront and transform oppression by identifying social movements and advocacy.

Format and requirements of the paper:

1. Introduction of Social Movements

A.Define the concepts of social justice, systemic oppression, and the role of advocacy.

B. Identify a social group that has experienced a social injustice, be specific.

C. Choose a social justice movement that addressed that groups experience of social injustice/oppression (see the list in the right column).

2. Origin of the Movement

Research and locate 3 articles from peer reviewed journals that explore the social movement. Offer the history and issues of the group that led to the social movement.

3. Social Justice Issue

Identify the form(s) of oppression the movement addressed, your analysis of the history and practice of the form of oppression that the movement challenged, and what the movement addressed overall in the U.S.

4. Outcome/Conclusion

Identify what social gains were made through the collective social movement and what has yet to be achieved regarding the ending of oppression.

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Choose a social justice movement that addressed that groups experience of social injustice/oppression from the following list:

• The Civil Rights Movement (including desegregation of transportation and public accommodations, school desegregation, voting rights).
• The American Indian Movement
• The Chicano/Mexican American Movement
• The Young Lords (Puerto Rican social movement – 1960’s & 1970’s)
• Labor Organizing of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Welfare Rights Movements
• First to Third Wave Feminist Movements
• Movements to End Violence Against Women
• Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960’s and ‘70’s
• Black Lives Matter
• Occupy Wall Street
• Anti-Gender Movement
• Disability Rights Movement
• UN Decade of Healthy Ageing

See the Search Strategy tab for tips on how to best search these topics and the Finding Articles tab for recommended databases to find peer-reviewed articles required for the assignment.