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I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface Paperback - 2007

by 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.

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EVERYTHING THAT TOOK place in Mississippi during the 1960s took place against that state's long tradition of systematic racial terrorism.

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"With this history of the civil rights movement focusing on Everyman-turned-hero, the commoner as crusader for justice, Payne challenges the old idea that history is the biography of great men."--Kirkus Reviews "Remarkably astute in its judgments and strikingly sophisticated in its analyses . . . it is one of the most significant studies of the Black freedom struggle yet published."--David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross "This extremely important book clearly reveals the logic of how ordinary people propelled the civil rights movement. . . . [It] provides a basis for optimism as we approach the next century."--Aldon Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

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  • Title I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface
  • Author Charles M. Payne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 552
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date 2007-03-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520251762 / 0520251768
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
  • Library of Congress subjects Civil rights workers - Mississippi - History, Civil rights movements - Mississippi -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006050031
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.097

About the author

Charles M. Payne is Professor and Bass Fellow, African American Studies, History and Sociology, Duke University
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