The Growing Democracy Project curriculum is co-created with activists, organizers, community leaders, residents, academics, and students — throughout Northeast Ohio. We currently have a working list of key concepts, events, and people that are a part of out Growing Democracy Project curriculum & toolkit. If you are interested in contributing to curriculum development by submitting a concept page, contact us or email Dr. Nickels at nickel5 [at] kent [dot] edu.
A
Accountability
Agency (Individual; change agent)
Alinsky, Saul
B
Boards/Commissions (special focus on citizen governance)
Brown v. Board of Education
C
Campaign
Chavez, Cesar
City & suburb/ suburbanization
Civic Engagement
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Society
Community-based Organization (CBO)
Community Building
Confronting Power
Constituent
Contentious politics
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Cunningham, Randy
D
Deliberation
Development (community/economic)
Douglas, Fredrick
E
Electoral Politics
Elite Power
Environmental Justice
Equal Justice Initiative (including the National Memorial for Peace and Justice)
F
Facilitation
Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR)
FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) | PRA (Ohio Public Records Act)
G
Gerrymandering
H
I
J
Jacobs, Jane
Jim Crow
K
King, Martin Luther
King, Rodney
L
Labor Unions
Leadership (community/local)
Listening (engaged/deep)
Ludlow Massacre
M
Marketplace of Ideas
Mobilization (see also Voter Mobilization)
Montgomery bus boycott
Movements (Social)
N
Neighborhood organizing (see also Organizing)
O
Organizing (community)
P
Parks, Rosa
Participatory Democracy
Partisan/Partisanship
Political Participation
Prefigurative Politics
Policy (public, urban, change)
Q
R
Racism
Race, May 4th, and The Jackson State Killings (see also May 4th)
Radical Democracy
Redlining
Representative Democracy
Representative Bureaucracy
S
Sen, Rinku
Social equity
Social action
Social Capital
Stakeholder (stakeholder power analysis, stakeholder engagement)
Strategic Planning
Structural Racism
Sustainability
T
Till, Emmett
Transparency
Tubman, Harriet
Tulsa Race Massacre (1921)
U
V
Voting Rights Act of 1965
W
X
X, Malcolm
Y
Z