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I've Got the Light of Freedom:

The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle : with a New Preface
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University of California Press, Mar 16, 2007 - History - 525 pages
"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."--Kirkus Reviews

"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."--David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross

"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."--Aldon Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
  

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

User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

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. Read full review

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User Review  - Kris - Goodreads

This is an excellent book. It focuses is on the community organizing tradition – as opposed to the more high profile community mobilization tradition of King and others – and its importance to the ... Read full review

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Contents

SETTING THE STAGE
7
TESTING THE LIMITS Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
29
GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND A WAY The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
67
MOVING ON MISSISSIPPI
103
GREENWOOD Building on the Past
132
IF YOU DONT GO DONT HINDER ME The Redefinition of Leadership
180
THEY KEPT THE STORY BEFORE ME Families and Traditions
207
SLOW AND RESPECTFUL WORK Organizers and Organizing
236
CARRYING ON The Politics of Empowerment
317
FROM SNCC TO SLICK The Demoralization of the Movement
338
MRS HAMER IS NO LONGER RELEVANT The Loss of the Organizing Tradition
363
THE ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY
391
EPILOGUE
407
The Social Construction of History
413
NOTES
443
INTERVIEWS
489

A WOMANS WAR
265
TRANSITIONS
284

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About the author (2007)

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

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