Concise and riveting, The Movement is an excellent work for those seeking an examination of the US civil rights movement from a perspective somewhat rare in more mainstream histories. "A bold and vivid story of the everyday human made heroic. a hugely humanistic overview." - BBC History Revealed
" concise but comprehensive history of the US civil rights movement pulls off an ambitious balancing act, placing the African-American fight for equality within its wider political and social context - all without losing sight of the campaigners on the frontline. Holt pays particular attention to the ordinary people and communities who took significant risks to make up the body of the movement." - Ellie Cawthorne, BBC History Magazine "A succinct but nuanced overview of the origins, objectives and achievements of the civil rights movement. "A concise, lucid and well-balanced account by one of America's best historians of the topic." - Tony Barber, Financial Times This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of "movement" back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society.
The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history.
The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.It highlights the contemporary relevance of Gandhian nonviolence and its successful journey across borders. This book goes beyond existing scholarship by contributing deeper and finer insights on how transnational diffusion between social movements actually works.
After surviving the doldrums of the McCarthy era, full implementation of the Gandhian repertoire finally occurred during the civil rights movement between 19. Meaningful collective learning started with translation of the Gandhian repertoire in the 1930s and small-scale experimentation in the early 1940s. In the 1920s, African Americans and their allies responded to Gandhi's ideas and practices by reproducing stereotypes. Collective learning shaped the invention of the Gandhian repertoire in South Africa and India as well as its transnational diffusion to the United States. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning in the Gandhian repertoire's transnational diffusion.
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King's ' pilgrimage to nonviolence' or favorable social contexts and processes.