Discuss the rise of the American civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. What accounted for the change in tone and tactics of the movement in the latter half of the 1960s? Only use provided scanned text for quotations. Note author and page number in a parenthetical reference. For example, The 1880s witnessed a new wave of labor organizing. At its center stood the Knights of Labor” (Foner 629).