I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle /
Payne, Charles M.
I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / Charles M. Payne. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. - xiv, 525 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., map 24 cm.
A Centennial book--Half t.p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-487) and index.
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" www.alibris.com
520085159
African Americans--Mississippi.
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Greenwood
E 185.93.M6 / .P293 1995
I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / Charles M. Payne. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. - xiv, 525 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., map 24 cm.
A Centennial book--Half t.p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-487) and index.
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" www.alibris.com
520085159
African Americans--Mississippi.
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Greenwood
E 185.93.M6 / .P293 1995
