Maybe this is just semantics (what do you mean by civil rights movement? I
distinguish it from the black power/black nationalist movement), but re.
John's:
>I would argue that this is not quite right - that is, the CR movement did
>challenge more profoundly than the antiwar movement the structural aspects
>of Amer. society
I'd ask WHAT structural aspects of American society were challenged (at all)
by the CR movement? As opposed to the black power movement, I see CR as a
fundamentally liberal movement (transforming the South into a model more like
the rest of the country via Dem. Party influence, national legislation, etc.),
yet one containing implications and practices that inclined in a radical direction, that could be and were taken that way (e.g.,
the democratic community organizing base of the poor people's movement, the
potential anti-capitalist strains of MLKing, the Panthers, the poor people's
movement, the very late Malcolm X, etc.) --as well as the other implications
mentioned by drieux re. other groups.
Ted Morgan