The time period in which the organizations/movements came together—make sure you understand the differences between the 1950s and 1970s, for example (in what ways might one of the movements have adopted or served as the role model for the other?)

Manifesto Assignment

A Gay Manifesto 1970
Black Panther Party Platform and Program October 1966.
Contract with America 1994.
Declaration and Manifesto of Occupy Wall Street Movement.
DECLARATION OF NUCLEAR RESISTANCE Clamshell Allliance 1977.
EL PLAN DE AZTLAN 1969.
Green Peace Declaration of Interdependence 1976.
IWW Chicago Manifesto 1905.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Manifesto Definitions and Examples.
File NOW Statement of Purpose 1966.
File Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society.
File Radical Lesbians The Woman Identified Woman 1970.
File Southern Manifesto on Integration 1956.
File Tea Party Platform.
File SSC 475 M Manifesto Assignment.

As we have read and discussed, there are a number of reasons and methods by which social movements develop. This project asks you to examine two manifestos from the set posted on Blackboard and write an essay in which you analyze the reason and purpose of the new organizations, their demands and resolutions and similarities or differences you see among the two you have chosen.

In your essay, address the following topics:

The time period in which the organizations/movements came together—make sure you understand the differences between the 1950s and 1970s, for example (in what ways might one of the movements have adopted or served as the role model for the other?).
Trigger or crisis that generated concern (outrage) and protest.
The community/people who were affected by events or conditions (who were they, where did they come from).
The kind of movement/issue: identity (race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality), issue (environment, anti-war, free speech).
The ways in which the groups defined and articulated their complaints.