solved Instructions: 1) According to Charles Tilly, what are social movements?

Instructions:
1) According to Charles Tilly, what are social movements? In your discussion, please mention at least two keywords from Tilly’s reading that describe social movements.
2) How can Tilly’s discussion on social movements be applied to white backlash after Reconstruction? In your discussion, please incorporate key points from both Tilly and Mia Bay’s readings (you are also welcome to use Baldwin’s reading, too).
3) How can Tilly’s discussion on social movements be applied to the Great Migration? In your discussion, please incorporate key points from both Tilly and Davarian L. Baldwin’s readings (you are also welcome to use Mia Bay’s reading, too).

Social movements, according to Charles Tilly, are a series of divisive acts, exhibitions, and contests in which common citizens establish collective claims on others (Berry, 3). Social movements, according to Tilly, are a primary channel for ordinary people’s participation in politics and are essential. A social movement entails long-term collective mobilization through either informal or formal organization, with the goal of bringing about changes in the current relational structure. Ideology has a crucial role in social movements (Berry, 2). On the basis of shared collective identities, social movements are characterized as networks of informal interactions between a diversity of individuals involved in political struggles.

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Tilly’s definition of the social movement can potentially be reflected in Mia Bay’s description of the anti-black movement that rose after Reconstruction. The sustained, informally organized sequence of lynchings can be viewed through the lens of Tilly’s defined “campaign”, where the claims are acts of violence performed upon mostly black men and some women. The destruction of the Free Speech was also an example of a violent claim made by the anti-black movement. Bay argues that “what distinguishes lynchings from all other forms of murder is the lynchers’ claims to justification and social legitimacy” – however, Tilly makes no such distinction that prevents its classification as a social movement (Bay, 14). The most commonly enacted part of the social movement repertoire can be seen as the frequent “public meetings”. WUNC displays have already been half fulfilled due to the white nature of the anti-black movement’s claimants. The sheer number of people that participated in such lynchings were also a demonstration of unity and commitment.