Impacts of Reform
General Overview: This research project will examine the impact of reform and/or civil rights movements of the 19th – 21st centuries. Your research will examine should place your selected movement/reform in both the historical and modern context, choosing to focus on either their causes, achievements, struggles, and/or stances of your selected reform movement and/or civil rights movement. This essay should additionally analyze the contributions these movements have made in the overall fight for freedom and equality in United States history.
Examples: The history of the temperance/prohibition movement and the impact on the ratification of the 18th amendment; the origins of the African American civil rights movement and the issues of equality under the law in the modern context; the women’s struggle for suffrage and the relation to issues of equal opportunity; the recognition of the rights of the disabled and legislative moves to provide accommodation and access to opportunity.
Impacts of Reform
Research Objectives & Questions to be Discussed in Your Essay:
- What are the most significant organizations formed for your movement that have had the greatest impact historically and/or modernly?
- What are the sources of division amongst reformers/activists? Is there disagreement on approaches on how they should present their desired reforms to the public/government?
- What has been the greatest challenge for this movement/reform in terms of achieving equality, either historically or modernly?
- What is the modern status and/or legacy of these movements today?
- How do you feel that you have directly benefitted, or are influenced by, the reform movements in the past or modernly?
Impacts of Reform
General Overview: This research project will examine the impact of reform and/or civil rights movements of the 19th – 21st centuries. Your research will examine should place your selected movement/reform in both the historical and modern context, choosing to focus on either their causes, achievements, struggles, and/or stances of your selected reform movement and/or civil rights movement. This essay should additionally analyze the contributions these movements have made in the overall fight for freedom and equality in United States history.
Examples: The history of the temperance/prohibition movement and the impact on the ratification of the 18th amendment; the origins of the African American civil rights movement and the issues of equality under the law in the modern context; the women’s struggle for suffrage and the relation to issues of equal opportunity; the recognition of the rights of the disabled and legislative moves to provide accommodation and access to opportunity. APA.