I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / / Charles M. Payne ; with a new preface

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818766503321
• Autore: Payne Charles M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-280-09458-3; 9786613520418; 0-520-93388-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1196/0730762
• Soggetti: African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - Mississippi - History - 20th century; African American civil rights workers - Mississippi - History - 20th century; Civil rights workers - Mississippi - History - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - Greenwood - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - Mississippi - Greenwood - History - 20th century; Mississippi Race relations History 20th century; Greenwood (Miss.) Race relations History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface To The 2007 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Setting The Stage -- Two. Testing The Limits: Black Activism In Postwar Mississippi -- Three. Give Light And The People Will Find A Way: The Roots Of An Organizing Tradition -- Four. Moving On Mississippi -- Five. Greenwood: Building On The Past -- Six. If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition Of Leadership -- Seven. They Kept The Story Before Me: Families And Traditions -- Eight. Slow And Respectful Work: Organizers And Organizing -- Nine. A Woman's War -- Ten. Transitions -- Eleven. Carrying On: The Politics Of Empowerment -- Twelve. From Sncc To Slick: The Demoralization Of The Movement -- Thirteen. Mrs. Hamer Is ; No Longer Relevant: The Loss Of The Organizing Tradition -- Fourteen. The Rough Draft Of History -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction Of History -- Notes -- Interviews -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.