Social Movements
The Civil Rights Movement
A movement built substantially around a single powerful strategic bet: that disciplined nonviolent resistance could overcome a deeply entrenched, often violently defended system of legal segregation.
Labor Unions
The weekend, the 8-hour workday, and basic workplace safety rules that most workers today simply take for granted were all significantly won through organized labor union advocacy.
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.