Labor Unions
The weekend and the 8-hour workday weren't gifts: they were won substantially through organized labor pressure.
The Abolitionist Movement
Ending slavery took petitions, pamphlets, boycotts, daring escapes, and in the United States, a civil war.
The Anti-Apartheid Movement
A worldwide campaign of boycotts, sanctions, and solidarity helped bring down a government's racial system.
The Environmental Movement
One 1962 book about pesticides is widely credited with sparking a movement, and by 1970 the US had an EPA.
The LGBTQ+ Rights Movement
It sparked with protests after a 1969 police raid on a New York bar and took decades to reach a Supreme Court marriage ruling.
Women's Suffrage
A basic democratic right that one country granted women in 1893 — while others didn't extend it until more than half a century later.
The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement bet on disciplined nonviolence to take down legal segregation, and the landmark laws that followed proved it right.