I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, with a new preface

Author(s)

• Payne, Charles M.

Bibliographic Information

I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, with a new preface

Charles M. Payne

（A centennial book）

University of California Press, c2007

• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE 2007 EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION ONE SETTING THE STAGE TWO TESTING THE LIMITS Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi THREE GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND A WAY The Roots of an Organizing Tradition FOUR MOVING ON MISSISSIPPI FIVE GREENWOOD Building on the Past SIX IF YOU DON'T GO, DON'T HINDER ME The Redefinition of Leadership SEVEN THEY KEPT THE STORY BEFORE ME Families and Traditions EIGHT SLOW AND RESPECTFUL WORK Organizers and Organizing NINE A WOMAN S WAR TEN TRANSITIONS ELEVEN CARRYING ON The Politics of Empowerment TWELVE FROM SNCC TO SLICK The Demoralization if the Movement THIRTEEN MRS. HAMER IS NO LONGER RELEVANT The Loss if the Organizing Tradition FOURTEEN THE ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY NOTES INTERVIEWS INDEX

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Details

• NCID: BB15400466
• ISBN:
  • 9780520251762
• LCCN: 2006050031
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 525 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E185.93.M6
  • DC22 : 323.1196/0730762
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11127641