social justice

Examples of social justice in the following topics:

• Social Justice

  • Progressive reformers tried to achieve social justice by targeting poverty and all forms of social and political corruption.
  • The Progressive Era witnessed an increasing interest in social reforms.
  • For example, Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by professionalized social workers and volunteers and located in inner city slums.
  • Leading intellectuals also shaped the political and social progressive mentality.
  • In sum, the "Progressive Era" is a broadly construed term that refers to a myriad of social, cultural, and political reform movements advocated by otherwise disparate interest groups and political parties that were reacting to the modernizing, industrializing economic and social situation that arose by the turn of the century.

• Social Justice

  • Progressive reformers, concerned with the exploitation of society's most vulnerable individuals, called for social welfare legislation.
  • Jane Addams, of Chicago's Hull House, typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by social workers and volunteers and located in inner-city slums.
  • With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.
  • Describe how Progressives attempted to achieve social justice with welfare policies

• Markets and Missionaries

  • The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environments, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
  • Denver, Colorado, was a center of Social Gospel activism.
  • Most began programs for social reform, which led to ecumenical cooperation in 1910 during the formation of the Federal Council of Churches (although cooperation regarding social issues often led to charges of Socialism).
  • Johnson to transform social problems into moral problems.
  • This helps explain his longtime commitment to social justice, as exemplified by the Great Society, and his commitment to racial equality.

• The Social Gospel

  • The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
  • Social Gospellers typically were post-millennialist; that is, they believed that the Second Coming could not happen until humankind rid itself of social evils by human effort.
  • Important Social Gospel leaders include Richard T.
  • Denver, Colorado, was a center of Social Gospel activism.
  • The Social Gospel affected much of Protestant America.

• Socialism and the Unions

  • Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production, as well as the political ideologies, theories, and movements that aim at their establishment.
  • Socialism often overlapped with union and labor activities.
  • One of the IWW's most important contributions to the labor movement and broader push toward social justice was that, when founded, it was the only American union (besides the Knights of Labor) to welcome all workers including women, immigrants, African Americans, and Asians into the same organization.
  • Gronlund was converted to socialism by Blaise Pascal's Pensées, and gave up the practice of law to write and lecture on socialism.
  • Evaluate the relationship between socialism and labor during the Gilded Age

• Battles in the Courts and Congress

  • In 1981, President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to fill the Supreme Court Justice vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Potter Stewart, as he had promised during his 1980 presidential campaign.
  • In 1986, during his second term, the President Reagan elevated Justice William Rehnquist to succeed outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger and named Antonin Scalia to occupy the seat left by Rehnquist.
  • In 1987, when Associate Justice Louis Powell retired, Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court.
  • These included Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, and federal education programs.
  • Though Reagan protected entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, in one of the most widely criticized actions of his administration, Reagan attempted to purge tens of thousands of people with disabilities from the Social Security disability roles, alleging they were not "truly disabled."

• Laissez-Faire and the Supreme Court

  • Justice Rufus Peckham wrote for the majority, while Justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., filed dissents.
  • Justice Harlan's dissent argued that the Court gave insufficient weight to the state's argument that the law was a valid health measure addressing a legitimate state interest.
  • Justice Holmes's famous dissent criticized the decision for discarding sound constitutional interpretation in favor of personal beliefs.
  • Herbert Spencer's Social Statics."
  • Rufus Wheeler Peckham, associate justice of the U.S.

• The Warren Court

  • The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
  • Prominent members of the Court during the Warren era besides the Chief Justice included Justices William J.
  • When Warren joined the Court, all the justices had been appointed by Franklin D.
  • The Warren Court reached many decisions that changed not only the laws of the United States but contributed to significant social changes.
  • The Supreme Court in 1953, with Chief Justice Earl Warren sitting center.

• Legislative Achievements of the Second New Deal

  • The two major legislative achievements of the Second New Deal were the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Social Security Act.
  • The Social Security Act, enacted August 14, 1935, was another significant achievement of the New Deal.
  • It was a legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States.
  • The practical effect of this proposal was that the president would get to appoint six new Justices to the Supreme Court, thus instantly tipping the political balance on the Court dramatically in his favor.
  • Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the Court's majority would uphold it.

• Red Scare

  • A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), the Bolsheviks split from the party’s other socialist faction, the Mensheviks, in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • Rockefeller, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and immigration officials.
  • Justice Department to launch what became known as the Palmer Raids in November 1919 and January 1920.
  • In 1919–20, several states enacted "criminal syndicalism" laws outlawing advocacy of violence in effecting and securing social change, which included free speech limitations.
  • Regardless of ideological nuances, the Red Scare did not distinguish between communism, socialism, or social democracy and enable an overreach of government power while weakening civil liberties in the United States.