Newman identifies World War II as a very relevant turning point for support of the civil rights movement among African-Americans. Newman notes that there were no major accomplishments, with the exception of the desegregation of the armed services, until 1954 with the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education. With this ruling, the power of the civil rights movement increased and gained political power with the African-American migration to the north, thus giving more blacks the right to vote. Newman did not focus on the leaders of the movement; instead he focused on local and low level civil rights workers and the various organizations that were created to help the movement. Newman added to the study of the civil rights movement by looking
