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050			_aE 185.93.M6 _b.P293 1995
100			_aPayne, Charles M. _9109765
245		0	_aI've got the light of freedom : _bthe organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / _cCharles M. Payne.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc1995.
300			_axiv, 525 p., [24] p. of plates : _bill., map _c24 cm.
500			_aA Centennial book--Half t.p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 443-487) and index.
520			_aWith 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
650			_aAfrican Americans _zMississippi. _9107395
650			_aCivil rights movements _zMississippi _9108192
650			_aCivil rights movements _zMississippi _9108192
650			_aCivil rights workers _zMississippi _9109766
650			_zGreenwood _9107830
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