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I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle /

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This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Charles M. (Author)
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Series:Black thought and culture.
Subjects:
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Greenwood > History > 20th century.
Greenwood (Miss.) > Race relations.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Mississippi.
Mississippi > Relations raciales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Race relations
Mississippi
Mississippi > Greenwood
Civil Rights Movement.
Zwarten.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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 respectful 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
  • Bibliographic essay: the social construction of history.