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I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface

by Charles M. Payne
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface

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ISBN13: 9780520251762
ISBN10: 0520251768



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and#147;With this history of the civil rights movement focusing on Everyman-turned-hero, the commoner as crusader for justice, Payne challenges the old idea that history is the biography of great men.and#8221;and#151;Kirkus Reviews

and#147;Remarkably astute in its judgments and strikingly sophisticated in its analyses . . . it is one of the most significant studies of the Black freedom struggle yet published.and#8221;and#151;David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prizeand#150;winning Bearing the Cross

and#147;This extremely important book clearly reveals the logic of how ordinary people propelled the civil rights movement. . . . [It] provides a basis for optimism as we approach the next century.and#8221;and#151;Aldon Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

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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.

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Charles M. Payne is Professor and Bass Fellow, African American Studies, History and Sociology, Duke University

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ISBN:
9780520251762
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
03/16/2007
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
552
Height:
1.60IN
Width:
6.10IN
Thickness:
1.5 in.
LCCN:
2006050031
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2007
UPC Code:
2800520251764
Author:
Charles M Payne
Author:
Charles M. Payne
Subject:
African American Studies-Black Heritage
Subject:
African American Studies-General
Subject:
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi.
Subject:
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi.

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