An account of the origins, development, and personalities of the Civil Rights movement from 1953-1963.

Includes index.

Domination, church, and the NAACP -- Beginnings and confrontations -- Movement centers: MIA, ICC, and ACMHR -- The SCLC: the decentralized political arm of the Black church -- The SCLC's crusade for citizenship -- Organizational relationships: the SCLC, the NAACP, and CORE -- Movement halfway houses -- Internal organization and direct action -- 1960: origins of a decade of disruption -- Birmingham: a planned exercise in mass disruption -- Theoretical overview and conclusions.