I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / Charles M. Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Charles M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Civil rights workers.

Mississippi.

Civil rights workers--Mississippi--History--20th century.

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.

African Americans.

Mississippi--Race relations.

Race relations.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Greenwood--History--20th century.

Greenwood (Miss.)--Race relations.

Greenwood (Miss.).

Mississippi--Greenwood.

Physical Description:

xiv, 525 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Other Title:

I have got the light of freedom

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]

Summary:

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, Payne uncovers a chapter of American history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung black people risked their lives for the freedom struggle.

Notes:

"A Centennial book"--Half t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-487) and index.

ISBN:

0520085159

OCLC:

31134152