Interest Groups and Social Movements.

Both the article and the lecture state the few ways that an interest group can be successful and benefit the whole of the group . 

"Demonstrations and boycotts can be another way of influencing policy. This tactic is probably most famous for being used during the early civil movements like the Montgomery Bus Boycott organized by Martin Luther King Jr . Litigation is another tactic used by the civil rights movement as in Brown v. Board of Ed. To litigate means to bring your issue to court in the form of a lawsuit. An important political battle is being fought over the limits in damages corporations have to pay in lawsuits  " 


This statement reflects the idea in the article about smaller groups being more successful over larger organizations. 


I chose this statement in light of what's been happening today with police violence against African Americans today , you see many people want and demanding a change but they aren't effectively influencing policy in their area or country with the interests that they are demanding. Boycotting  when theses things happen can prove to be very successful and so can litigation . I would rather these things than destroying the communities in which they live .

Brown V. Board of Education

" Racial segregation in public education has a detrimental effect on minority children because

it is interpreted as a sign of inferiority . The long held doctrine that separate facilities were

permissible provided they were equal was rejected ".



   A Class action lawsuit was brought against the city of Topeka ,Kansas . Black children were denied

access to white schools but asserted that the school systems did not follow the doctrine of "separate

but equal" because they were not equal to white schools and that there was no way they could ever be

equal . It was brought to the supreme court and would have to pretty much override an earlier

supreme court ruling of Plessy V. Ferguson , which held that segregation was legal but only if the

separate facilities were equal.


The courts ruling was 9-0 in favor of brown . I chose this case because this pretty set up the premise

of my education today because I am African American and it has given me the ability to experience a

quality public school education , although many schools that are not white still experience being

behind. It was said that despite the equalization of the schools by "objective" factors , intangible

issues foster and maintain inequality .  I totally agree with the what was said about racial segregation

in public education has a detrimental effect on minority children and that effect is still felt today and

is also in addition to the fragile state of the African American in the U.S .  The effects of slavery and

segregation has set many behind.


I believe this case is important because it overrides the beliefs and doctrines of racist ideology

and agendas  that were held and accepted in the United States of America .

The Presidency

"  The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God " John F.Kennedy

This quote is taken from JFKs inaugural speech . President Kennedy was basically saying that in this world and society we have the power and the means to end things such as poverty and hunger but instead of being the change and the abolishers of those things we are the creators of it. That the rights that were declared in the declaration of independence and fought for in the revolutionary war are pretty much the same issues that people are still struggling without and fighting for . When instead majority of rights are given with birth and not by government.


I absolutely believe and agree with what President Kennedy had to say . It is so true that the government and industries have the power to end and cure so many things that are ravishing human lives such as poverty ,hunger and more but because they are so money hungry and love power we will probably never see these things come to an end. Such as cancer it has become a billion dollar industry its hard to imagine that they are actively searching for a cure or even would want the general public to have one. There are always many rights that should come with birth that we may think we have but truly do not.