I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle /
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civilrights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in such places as Greenwood, Mississippi, wher...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1996]
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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| Summary: | This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civilrights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in such places as Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. 27 photographs. |
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| Item Description: | "A Centennial book"--Half title page |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 525 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-487) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520207068 9780520207066 |