Stories by Aldon Morris

Aldon Morris is Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and a previous president of the American Sociological Association. His landmark books include The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1986) and The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2015). Credit: Nick Higgins

Inequality

The Pandemic Deepened Fault Lines in American Society

COVID energized the Black Lives Matter movement—and provoked a dangerous backlash

March 27, 2022 — Aldon Morris

Behavior

We’ll Never Fix Systemic Racism by Being Polite

Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing “We Shall Overcome”

April 20, 2021 — Aldon Morris | Opinion

Behavior

From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

Protest expert Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed

April 20, 2021 — Aldon Morris