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I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle : with a new preface / Charles M. Payne.
- Title
- I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle : with a new preface / Charles M. Payne.
- Author
- Payne, Charles M.
- Publication
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 525 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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. (Publisher).
- Subjects
- Greenwood (Miss.) > Race relations
- Mississippi > Race relations
- Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Greenwood > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi
- Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half t.p.
- Originally published: 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Testing the limits -- Give light and the people will find a way -- Moving on Mississippi -- Greenwood -- If you don't go, don't hinder me -- They kept the story before me -- Slow and respectful work -- A woman's war -- Transitions -- Carrying on -- From SNCC to slick -- Mrs. Hamer is no longer relevant -- The rough draft of history.
- ISBN
- 9780520251762 (pbk.)
- 0520251768 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 123271694
- SCSB-11169978
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library