I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the mississippi freedom struggle

I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the mississippi freedom struggle / Charles M. Payne.

This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Charles M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
History.
Political science.
history (discipline)
History
Civil rights movements
Political science
Mississippi
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 2007 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Setting the Stage; Chapter 2: Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar, Mississippi; Chapter 3: Give Light and the People Will Find a Way: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition; Chapter 4: Moving on Mississippi; Chapter 5: Greenwood: Building on the past; Chapter 6: If you Don't go, Don't Hinder me: The Redefinition of Leadership; Chapter 7: They Kept the Story be Fore me: Families and Traditions.
  • Chapter 8: Slow and Respectful Work: Organizer and OrganizingChapter 9: A Woman's War; Chapter 10: Transitions; Chapter 11: Carrying on: The Politics of Empowerment; Chapter 12: From Sncc to Slick: The Demoralization of the Movement; Chapter 13: Mrs. Hamer is no Longer Relevant: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition; Chapter 14: The Rough Draft of History; Epilogue; Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History; Notes; Interviews; Index.

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