American Indian Movement is founded

Farm workers build a member-led organization for labor rights, health, and dignity; it later becomes part of the United Farm Workers. Source gives the year or month only; day 1 is a timeline-schema...

Welfare recipients organize for dignity, adequate support, and a voice in policy, challenging systems that treated service users as passive beneficiaries. Source gives the year or month only; day 1 is...

Women organize to challenge discrimination and exclusion, using chapters, advocacy, and public campaigns to broaden women’s participation.

The housing charity combines public campaigning, advice, and services, offering an example of a nonprofit integrating frontline experience into policy advocacy. Source gives the year or month only;...

The Young Lords develop from a Puerto Rican street organization into a multiethnic group advocating access to health care, education, housing, and employment. Source gives the year or month only;...

Local chapters build community-run breakfast, health, and education programs, showing how service delivery can be paired with political education and accountability. Source gives the year or month...

The organization documents discrimination against ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities and works with communities and local partners. Source gives the year or month only; day 1 is a...

Community members resist police violence; the uprising helps catalyze grassroots organizations, mutual aid, and public campaigns for LGBTQ+ rights.

Disabled people organize around self-determination and challenge institutions that define disability without the participation of disabled people. Source gives the year or month only; day 1 is a...

Black women organize against intersecting racism and sexism, insisting social movements and service organizations address multiple forms of exclusion together. Source gives the year or month only; day...