ASSIGNMENT

Assignment



Assignment 1

It was the beginning of the Settlement House Movement in the era of 1890's in the U.S., however the movement began for African Americans with the start of the century with the Frederick Douglass Center in Chicago, 1904. More than a decade later the Plymouth Settlement House in Louisville became a part of the movement. It had taken them six years to raise funding for the Settlement House (Asante, 2002).

Scholars argue that there are several basic conditions necessary for the emergence and success of a social movement. Among these are a mobilizing event, organizational support, a communications ...