So we spent a lot of time in our respective offices and also at the coffee pot or at Friday late afternoon/evening Sherry Hours and maybe even the occasional volleyball game (although I don't remember Aldon as a regular at our seasonal T noon and F afternoon volleyball games).Obviously, his first book did better than mine (that was also the case for his grad student buddy, Doug McAdam, another Civil Rights scholar) and he has become a major figure in social movements and collective action and in Afro-American Studies.
He was furiously working on this book in order to be promoted and tenured (which he was in 1986), and I was furiously working on finishing my dissertation (which I did in 1982). He came to Michigan in 1980, when I was in Colorado doing dissertation research, but we were both at the Center for Research on Social Organization (with Bill Gamson, Chuck Tilly, Mayer Zald and the incredibly efficient Sheila Wilder-all of whom are acknowledged in preface). He has since left Michigan and has been a department head and a dean at Northwestern University in Chicago:Aldon Morris at NorthwesternProfessor Morris and I are friends as well as colleagues, but we don't see each other very often, except at the national American Sociological Association meetings. Before diving into the book, let me say a few words about the author and my experience with him and his book over the past thirty years or so.Aldon Morris was an assistant professor (untenured) in the sociology department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor at the time this book was published, in 1984. SOC 531: Community OrganizationFall 2010, HoganAldon Morris, Origins of the Civil Rights MovementThis is a great book to teach, particularly late in the semester, after students have read other, less enjoyable tomes.
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