Hilary, you are wrong on the facts entirely. Did you read the post? 1959 is the clue. For many of us, the murder of Emmett Till was the start. Some people from that time period say his murder was the 9/11 for Black people. Rosa Parks, some say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, said his murder influenced her as did the teenagers before her. By 1959, Brown vs. The Board of Education had already been decided. By 1959, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as noted above, had already ended which spotlighted Rosa Parks and Dr. King. Plus, as I noted in the post, this experiment had already been done in 1948 by another white journalist who published a 21-part series. If you google, ‘when did the civil rights movement start,’ it says 1954. So, you are wrong from the start about the start. Plus, this book was published in 1961 which is clearly in the dates of the civil rights movement! What is telling about the date is that it was a few days before Halloween, when white people especially take to the streets in blackface.