I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New PrefaceThis 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. |
Contents
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| 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 |
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 |
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