I've Got the Light of Freedom : The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

by Payne, Charles M.

• ISBN13: 9780520251762
• ISBN10: 0520251768
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-16
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Charles M. Payne is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology at Duke University

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2007 Edition	p. XIII
Acknowledgments	p. XXV
Introduction	p. 1
Setting the Stage	p. 7
Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi	p. 29
Give Light and the People Will Find a Way: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition	p. 67
Moving on Mississippi	p. 103
Greenwood: Building on the Past	p. 132
If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition of Leadership	p. 180
They Kept the Story Before Me: Families and Traditions	p. 207
Slow and Respecteul Work: Organizers and Organizing	p. 236
A Woman's War	p. 265
Transitions	p. 284
Carrying On: The Politics of Empowerment	p. 317
From SNCC to Slick: The Demoralization of the Movement	p. 338
Mrs. Hamer is no Longer Relevant: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition	p. 363
The Rough Draft of History	p. 391
Epilogue	p. 407
Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History	p. 413
Notes	p. 443
Interviews	p. 489
Index	p. 493
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