Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970

Author(s): Doug McAdam

Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1999, pp. 304

Originally published: 1982

McAdam, a leading social movement theorist, has written widely on various aspects and interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement, including Doug McAdam, The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70, In Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts, Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009 , pp. 58-74 . His influential article  Doug McAdam, Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency, 1985 , pp. 735-754  (reprinted in Doug McAdam, David A. Snow, Readings on Social Movements: Origins, Dynamics and Outcomes (A. 7. Important Reference Works and Websites) ) highlights how innovative tactics of mass action broke through institutionalised powerlessness.