Discuss how McAdam explains the emergence, development, strategy an...

Doug McAdams in his book Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency (1982) offer an analysis concerning the contributory factors that made the civil right movement a success. McAdams demonstrated the analytical power inherent in considering a broader range of factors that played a part in ensuring seamless mobilization of the African-American in protest movements during the civil right agitation. Rather than attributing the success of the civil rights movement to a single factor, the author holds that a confluence of factors each playing a role and riding on the success of the other. Examining the direction and organizational power of the civil rights activism for a period spanning 40 years, the author explicitly offered the political process theory holding that it is an improvement of the resource mobilization approaches.