No individuals, but only churches or civic leagues, could be members. The Morri pursued a legal strategy of forcing change through court decisions, but this was a slow process that did not satisfy blacks looking for more immediate relief from the oppression of segregation. Morris shows how black churches provided organization and leadership to the movement. Morris Snippet view – 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.ĭu Boisthe first black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University.
It was a secular organization with a paternalistic attitude, seeking to take blacks out of their ghettoes into integrated situations.
The white power structure aldo the movement through a devious strategy of making promises they never intended to keep, but the movement became a model for other black communities and showed the need for good organization. King introduced an activist social gospel in a refocused militant view of religion. However, the social network connecting the churches in a mass movement was facilitated by alliances among the clergymen heading the various divil through informal associations and formal bodies such as the National Baptist Convention. Aldon Douglas Morris (born June 15, ) is an African-American professor of sociology and. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement The Scholar Denied. Morris thing is certain, the pre-civil rights movement era would stand in stark contrast ity and labeled them as an inferior race (see Morris ).
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