Comments on: Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency, and Why It Matters

By: Shehan Jayatilaka

Shehan Jayatilaka — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:46:52 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to watch the video yet. But this idea of the civil rights movement as “insurgency” reminds me of a James Baldwin speech at Berkeley. You can view that video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Of0Abi10A

By: lupis42

lupis42 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:06:49 +0000

I found updated video links – (I have not tested these yet)

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/AHEC/mediagallery/videoGallery.cfm?id=32 – Whole series

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/AHEC/mediagallery/video/32_263.wmv – Download link

By: Lupis42

Lupis42 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:05:54 +0000

Update video links – (I have not tested these yet)

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/AHEC/mediagallery/videoGallery.cfm?id=32 – Whole series

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/AHEC/mediagallery/video/32_263.wmv – Download link

By: Mark Grimsley

Mark Grimsley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:27:53 +0000

I’m afraid AHEC has removed the video. On the positive side, the next issue of Military History Quarterly will carry my article on “Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency.” It comes out in January, I think.

By: Lupis42

Lupis42 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:54 +0000

Still no luck on the video link.

By: Charles N. Steele

Charles N. Steele — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:24:08 +0000

The video links aren’t currently working. Will they be restored, or is the video or a paper available elsewhere? Thanks.

By: Robert Brent

Robert Brent — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:25:04 +0000

You present a fascinating take on the civil rights movement that I, for one, have never heard before! I stumbled upon your site while researching content for our new website, timelines.com. Specifically, I was looking at information about the civil rights movement. Here’s a link to the “timeline” for the civil rights movement on our site: http://timelines.com/topics/civil-rights-movement. As you’ll see, many of the events are also tagged “African-American History” as well as with a few other items. Our idea is to create an interactive historical record of anything and everything, based on specific events that combine to form timelines. We’re trying to achieve a sort of user-created multimedia encyclopedia, in which no event is too big and no event is too small, and where each event can contain various types of resources, such as video, images, maps, etc., not to mention that they’ll represent various perspectives (unlike, say, wikipedia). It’s also a good way to direct traffic to your blog because your events will pop up along with anything else that’s thematically related. Right now I’m just getting out the word and looking for feedback. Soon, we’ll be adding a feature that allows users to embed the timelines from our site on to theirs.

Thanks!

By: Mark Grimsley

Mark Grimsley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:24:47 +0000

Thomas – Did you watch the video of my presentation? If so, on what basis — on what specific part of the presentation — do you raise your questions? If not, why not?

By: Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:34:07 +0000

So the labor movement would be an insurgency in your opinion? How about consumer rights?

By: Al Nofi

Al Nofi — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:12:12 +0000

Mark,

Just heard about:

Patrick D. Jones. The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in
Milwaukee. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2009.