Fourth BOOK CLUB Meeting May 28th

RSVP and join us to discuss this *new book* by Linda Gordon. 

When: May 28th, at 7pm. The location details will be sent after you RSVP. If not, please contact us at [email protected].

Historian Linda Gordon writes in Seven Social Movements That Changed America that “Social Movements have changed the world as often and as profoundly as wars, natural disasters and elections have done". Trump and Musk are changing America from the top, down. Join us and discuss how American social movements in the past have worked from the bottom, up. Gordon’s seven cases range from the late-nineteenth-century settlement house movement, which sought to alleviate poverty and inequality, to the twentieth-century struggle for women’s liberation, the largest social movement in American history. 
This month’s book, Seven Social Movements That Changed America, also examines the beginnings of the civil rights movement through the Montgomery bus boycott that began in 1955 and the organizing of Cesar Chavez among Latino agricultural workers in the 1950s and 1960s. Not all the social movements Gordon examines were progressive: she also sketches the largely nonviolent northern branch of the nativist and racist Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, as well as its highly violent progeny, the 1930s American fascist movement.
Linda Gordon is a renowned historian, she graduated from Swarthmore College, and Yale University. She has written extensively about social policy, wrote a biography of Dorothea Lange, and about vigilante action against Mexican-Americans. Gordon won the Bancroft Prize for best book in American history and the Beveridge Award for best book on the history of the Western Hemisphere.

WHEN

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:00 PM Guadalajara Time

WHERE

Private Home; Address included when you RSVP
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexico
Google map and directions

CONTACT

Gaby Moreno
[email protected]

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