"Black Southern Student Sit-in Movement: An Analysis of Internal Organization". Morris will serve as the 112th President the Association in 2021, succeeding Christine Williams. In 2019, Morris was elected as President-Elect of the American Sociological Association. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, Morris argued that Du Bois was the founder of modern American sociology, and that his contributions to the field were suppressed for decades due to institutional racism. In 2005, Morris and a group of peers persuaded the American Sociological Association to rename their top award after Du Bois. Du Bois, the first black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. and the scholarship of sociologist W.E.B. Morris was inspired by the moving oration of Martin Luther King Jr. Previously at Northwestern, he chaired the sociology department, directed Asian American Studies, served as associate dean for faculty affairs, and served as interim dean for the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1988, where he now serves as the Leon Forrest professor of sociology and African-American Studies. Morris was an associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan from 1980 to 1990.
Morris studied sociology and social movements at Bradley University and the State University of New York, Stony Brook, receiving his PhD in 1980. He moved to Chicago with his family, and enrolled at Southeast Community College in 1968. As a child he experienced Jim Crow racism and segregation one of his earliest memories was the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Morris, an African-American and the grandson of sharecroppers, was born in rural Tutwiler, Mississippi.
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