book
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change
Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press, 1984.
Why this matters here
Aldon Morris’s The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement reconstructs Black community organizing infrastructure—churches, associations, and logistics such as the Montgomery Improvement Association’s carpools and weekly gatherings that made sustained boycott possible. When Others Become Leaders cites that infrastructure to show influence moving through thousands of small decisions that never become famous. Morris establishes the organizational history; the book asks how leadership makes injury legible as something people can answer together.
