I've Got the Light of Freedom The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface

Name: I've Got the Light of Freedom The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface
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ISBN: 9780520251762

ISBN-10: 0520251768

ISBN-13: 9780520251762

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Charles M. Payne

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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.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.376
Language: English

Charles M. Payne is Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of African American studies, History and Sociology at Duke University. He is the author of the prize-winning I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement .



Preface to the 2007 Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Setting the Stage



Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi



Give Light and the People Will Find a Way: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition



Moving on Mississippi



Greenwood: Building on the Past



If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition of Leadership



They Kept the Story Before Me: Families and Traditions



Slow and Respecteul Work: Organizers and Organizing



A Woman's War



Transitions



Carrying On: The Politics of Empowerment



From SNCC to Slick: The Demoralization of the Movement



Mrs. Hamer is no Longer Relevant: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition



The Rough Draft of History


Epilogue


Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History


Notes


Interviews


Index