The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change: Black Communities Organizing for Change

**A "valuable, eye-opening work" (__The Boston Globe__) about the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.**On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Rosa Parks, weary after a long day at work, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man...and ignited the explosion that was the civil rights movement in America. In this powerful saga, Morris tells the complete story behind the ten years that transformed America, tracing the essential role of the black community organizations that was the real power behind the civil rights movement. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty key leaders, original documents, and other moving firsthand material, he brings to life the people behind the scenes who led the fight to end segregation, providing a critical new understanding of the dynamics of social change. **"An important addition to our knowledge of the strategies of social change for all oppressed peoples." --Reverend Jesse Jackson****"A benchmark study...setting the historical record straight." --__The New York Times Book Review__** A "valuable, eye-opening work" ( The Boston Globe ) about the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Rosa Parks, weary after a long day at work, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man...and ignited the explosion that was the civil rights movement in America. In this powerful saga, Morris tells the complete story behind the ten years that transformed America, tracing the essential role of the black community organizations that was the real power behind the civil rights movement. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty key leaders, original documents, and other moving firsthand material, he brings to life the people behind the scenes who led the fight to end segregation, providing a critical new understanding of the dynamics of social change. "An important addition to our knowledge of the strategies of social change for all oppressed peoples." --Reverend Jesse Jackson "A benchmark study...setting the historical record straight." -- The New York Times Book Review Aldon Morris tells for the first time the complete story behind ten years that transformed America, tracing the essential role of the black community organizations that were the real power behind the civil rights movement. Drawing on interviews with over fifth key leaders, on original documents, and other firsthand material, he brings to life the people behind the scenes who led the fight to end segregation. His piercing insights into the role of local community groups, along with the efforts of the SCLC, NAACP, CORE, and SNCC, and the leadership of organizers such as Martin Luther King, Jr., E.D. Nixon, Ella Baker, Fred Schuttlesworth, and Floyd’s McKissick provide a critical new understanding of the dynamics of social change. A blending of scholarly research and interviews with many of the figures who launched the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s records the events of the movement's tumultuous first decade An account of the origins, development, and personalities of the Civil Rights movement from 1953-1963. An account of the origins, development, and personalities of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, 1953-1963 By the 1950's Southern whites had established a comprehensive system of domination over blacks.