TY  - BOOK
AU  - Payne, Charles M.
TI  - I've got the light of freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle 
SN  - 520085159
AV  - E 185.93.M6 .P293 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Greenwood
N1  - A Centennial book--Half t.p; Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-487) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -