Social Reforms Movement

Social Reforms Movement

Introduction

Many social reform movements began to stir, beginning with the civil rights movement in the 1960's. A public policy historian- Hugh Heclo has suggested that the civil rights movement, in many ways, was the exemplary model for other movements. Activists for various causes were not only get inspiration by its righteous confrontation but were also learned by its mobilizing strategy at grassroots level and effectual media use for dramatization of its case. In spite of having their own history, each of the sixties movement was interconnected because of critical motifs and mutual inspiration (Engs, 2001). This paper ...