I've got the light of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / / Charles M. Payne ; with a new preface
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Payne Charles M
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| Titolo: |
I've got the light of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / / Charles M. Payne ; with a new preface
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (577 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.1196/0730762 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mississippi Race relations History 20th century |
| Greenwood (Miss.) Race relations History 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | african american studies |
| against the odds | |
| american south | |
| biographical | |
| black activism | |
| black rights | |
| civil rights history | |
| civil rights | |
| democracy | |
| discussion books | |
| emancipation | |
| generational | |
| higher education | |
| history | |
| human rights | |
| movement literature | |
| overcoming obstacles | |
| political | |
| race and prejudice | |
| racism | |
| school setting | |
| university textbook | |
| uplifting stories | |
| we shall overcome | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | I've got the light of freedom |
| ISBN: | 1-280-09458-3 |
| 9786613520418 | |
| 0-520-93388-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818766503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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