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Kenneth W Mack - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • book review law and local knowledge in the history of the Civil Rights Movement courage to dissent atlanta and the long history of the Civil Rights Movement by tomiko brown nagin oxford university press 2011
    2012
    Co-Authors: Kenneth W Mack
    Abstract:

    Book Review Essay focusing on Tomiko Brown Nagin's Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and The Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2012), which assesses recent political science-oriented scholarship that argues that Brown v. Board of Education had little effect on the Civil Rights Movement and was counterproductive in the short term. The review argues that this scholarship is ahistorical and that Courage to Dissent serves as a useful corrective.

  • bringing the law back into the history of the Civil Rights Movement
    Law and History Review, 2009
    Co-Authors: Kenneth W Mack
    Abstract:

    This paper uses a review of Nancy MacLean's FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH: THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE (2008), to challenge historians to re-integrate law and legal institutions into the Civil Rights history. It critiques recent work in the social history of the Civil Rights Movement for ignoring litigation and legal institutions, and/or regarding them as an impediment to social Movement organization. Recent political-science inspired work that examines Civil Rights history, by contrast, has focused on the Supreme Court rather than social Movement organization. The paper argues that recent work by Risa Goluboff, David Engstrom, Sophia Lee, Paul Frymer, and Kenneth Mack points the way for scholars in reorienting the legal history of the Civil Rights Movement away from the NAACP's school desegregation campaign and toward the struggle for economic citizenship. As such, the paper argues, such work provides a model for re-integrating law into the social history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Aldon D Morris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Civil Rights Movement, The
    International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2020
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris
    Abstract:

    This article explores the importance of the modern US Civil Rights Movement. This mass Movement was organized by southern Blacks in the 1950s and 1960s with the goal of overthrowing legally enforced racial segregation known as the Jim Crow regime. The Civil Rights Movement was initially triggered by the antisegregation action of Rosa Parks and led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the Movement developed, it involved hundreds of leaders and thousands of participants. These leaders and participants used massive nonviolent direct action to disrupt the Jim Crow regime in order to force white segregationists and the federal government to dismantle the system of racial segregation. The Movement accomplished many of its goals because it was able to generate national legislation that prohibited racial segregation. Television and the mass media enabled this Movement to become highly visible. Because of its visibility and heroic actions, the Civil Rights Movement has inspired national and international social change Movements.

  • Civil Rights Movement
    The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2015
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris
    Abstract:

    Fifty years ago African Americans were severely oppressed. Not only were they unable to enjoy many of the basic citizenship Rights guaranteed by the US Constitution but also, under Jim Crow, blacks were denied the franchise, barred from interacting with whites in public spaces, and trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder, where they were relegated to the poorest paying and least desirable jobs. The modern Civil Rights Movement, a major social force in the mid-1950s, was the vehicle through which African Americans and their supporters overthrew Jim Crow. Partly as a response to this groundbreaking Movement, scholars have constructed a new concept of social Movements where organization, strategic thinking, cultural traditions, and political encounters figure largely as explanatory factors in analyses of social Movements. Keywords: African American; Civil Rights; inequality; Movements; race

  • Lessons Of The Civil Rights Movement For Building A Worker Rights Movement
    WorkingUSA, 2005
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris, Dan Clawson
    Abstract:

    In 1955, African Americans in the South faced seemingly impossible conditions, but a decade later, a mass Movement had won impressive victories. If workers and unions hope to achieve fundamental changes, not just incremental advances, they should learn from the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement indicates that workers’ Rights can be won only if workers launch a mass Movement, take risks, engage in direct action, demonstrate an ability to disrupt the normal functioning of society, and maintain that disruption until concessions are won. Political change, legal victories, cultural shifts, and media coverage followed from, and depended on, the success of mass action.

  • a retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement political and intellectual landmarks
    Review of Sociology, 1999
    Co-Authors: Aldon D Morris
    Abstract:

    ▪ Abstract This review provides an analysis of the political and intellectual contributions made by the modern Civil Rights Movement. It argues that the Civil Rights Movement was able to overthrow the Southern Jim Crow regime because of its successful use of mass nonviolent direct action. Because of its effectiveness and visibility, it served as a model that has been utilized by other Movements both domestically and internationally. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement social Movement scholars formulated collective behavior and related theories to explain social Movement phenomena. These theories argued that Movements were spontaneous, non-rational, and unstructured. Resource mobilization and political process theories reconceptualized Movements stressing their organized, rational, institutional and political features. The Civil Rights Movement played a key role in generating this paradigmatic shift because of its rich empirical base that led scholars to rethink social Movement phenomena.

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