* Meyer (The Politics of Protest), preface, introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2. In these two chapters, meyer locates protest and social movements in a US political context.
*GJ1. Rhoda Lois Blumberg.. The Civil Rights Movement (From Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle) Overview of history through the mid-1950s.
* Aldon Morris. A Retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement: Political and Intellectual Landmarks. Annual Review of Sociology 1999. 25:517. This will provide background for the next section.
*GJ2 Jo Freeman. The Women’s Movement. (From The Origins Of The Women’s Liberation Movement, American Journal of Sociology 1973: original available on web site). Overview of mobilization 1960-1970, with a boxed chronology through 1982. Emphasis on cooptable networks and a precipitating crisis.
*GJ3. John D’Emilio. The Gay Liberation Movement (From Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970). This selection focuses on 1969 Stonewall riot through the 1970s, “gay liberation” and “radical lesbian feminist” phases.
*GL4, . Charles Kurzman. The Iranian Revolution (From Structural And Perceived Opportunity: The Iranian Revolution Of 1979, American Sociological Review 1996.) Perceptions of political situation did not match objective conditions.