During the 1960s, the civil rights movement under MLK and other black moderate leaders were able to gradually achieve significant progress in desegregating the South and advancing the cause of black ppl's civil and political rights thru methods of nonviolent resistance, but were much less successful in achieving meaningful change in the North's urban centres, where urban blacks were seeking more eco and social advancement against an atmosphere of de facto segregation by whites who didn't want blacks living alongside them in the same neighbourhoods or attending the same schools, and therefore moved to the suburbs ('white flight'). King and his followers did try to mount civil rights campaigns in the North using 'sit-ins' and similar methods as were used in the South, but without much success against white-dominated local govts and residents who felt that the largescale presence of blacks in their social institutions would lead to a largescale lowering of standards, and facilitated the 'white backlash' against civil rights. Therefore, MLK's appeals for racial integration in the North, such as re residential desegregation in Chicago in 1966, fell on deaf ears, which in turn underpinned growing black frustration in the ghettos leading to such riots as Harlem 1964, Watts and Indiannapolis 1965, Detroit and Newark 1967.
How could the civil rights movement have made more extensive inroads into the white power structures of Northern cities and achieved more meaningful economic and social progress for black urban ppl ?
How could the civil rights movement have made more extensive inroads into the white power structures of Northern cities and achieved more meaningful economic and social progress for black urban ppl ?