How did the Civil Rights Movement gain force in the 1950s?

To a great extent, there was much in the time period that
allowed the Civil Rights Movement to gain force and become something that would end up
shaping modern America.  Initially, I would suggest that the conformity and the desire
for "the norm" that was such a part of the 1950s had a tremendous consequence.  The idea
of "keeping up with the Joneses" and a condition whereby more people were "the
outsiders" because they could not be see as "the insiders" helped to create an
understanding in which "the other" was more prevalent.  The fight for Civil Rights was a
part of this landscape.  At the same time, the judicial activism that was embodied by
Justices like Earl Warren helped to set the stage for the social activism that hosted
the Civil Rights Movement.  Warren's decisions largely spoke for these "outsiders" and
ensured that issues such as equal protection under the law or equal application of the
law was tantamount to the fulfillment of the goals in the Constitution.  Decisions like
Brown v. Board Education went very far in ensuring that Civil
Rights was something that became embedded in the minds of every American.  The
desegregation of public facilities ending and their integration "with all deliberate
speed" helped to create the legal basis for the Civli Rights Movement, something that
moved socially.  Just the mere words, "with all deliberate speed," would help to inspire
the calls of Civil Rights Leaders who demanded that "all deliberate speed" translated to
"the fierce urgency of now."