SOCIAL CHANGE AGENT RESEARCH PAPER Social Change – Solutions to American Social Problems This semester we have focused on American Social Problems. In each section, we have learned that solutions have been proposed for a variety of social problems, some effective and others less so. In addition to policies, some individuals have organized and mobilized groups to create social change across the nation – they changed the culture. This assignment will focus on that social change. The research has one major goal: to communicate how social change happens in society. You will describe the dialectic relationship between individual troubles and social problems by including the following information: Who is the person? And where did they come from? [Short Bio] What Social Problem are they interested in solving? Why? What did they do? What actions did they take? [Strategy] What was the outcome? [Did this affect policy and/or the US culture? How?] Please choose 1 from the following list for your report and include the items I have listed in the parentheses: Dolores Huerta – National Farm Workers Association (Racism; Labor vs. Capital; grape strike; DHLI) John Lewis – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Racism; Bloody Sunday; Freedom Summer) Larry Kramer – Act Up! (Gay Rights; Die-In; Pharmaceutical Companies) Woody Guthrie – Labor Activist (Classism; Dust Bowl; Unionizing; Communism) Naomi Klein – No Logo/ Occupy Movement (Capitalism; Cultural Production; Occupy) Ken Kesey – Merry Prankster (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Acid Tests; Further bus) Angela Davis –Scholar (Black Panther Political Party; UCLA; communist party) Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors – #BlackLivesMatter (Trayvon Martin; Black Liberation Movement) Paper requirements Between 2 and 5 pages, double spaced, normal 12-pt font. Use research sources and not Wikipedia or an online singe source.
