Connections

Last week I was reading a textbook called The Struggle for Democracy, about the American political system. One of the chapters I was reading was about social movements and their role in our political process.

The book listed off a bunch of things that social movements need in order to be successful and one of them is buy-in by political leaders, some reason why at least some politicians would think it might benefit them to back the movement and its goals. In the context of the civil rights movement, the book mentions that this backing was forthcoming because many felt that our Cold War foreign policy goals in Africa, Asia and Latin America were threatened by the ongoing segregation and racial violence in the South.

That's not a connection that I had made before and so I thought I would share it.

Connections

Last week I was reading a textbook called The Struggle for Democracy, about the American political system. One of the chapters I was reading was about social movements and their role in our political process.

The book listed off a bunch of things that social movements need in order to be successful and one of them is buy-in by political leaders, some reason why at least some politicians would think it might benefit them to back the movement and its goals. In the context of the civil rights movement, the book mentions that this backing was forthcoming because many felt that our Cold War foreign policy goals in Africa, Asia and Latin America were threatened by the ongoing segregation and racial violence in the South.

That's not a connection that I had made before and so I thought I would share it.