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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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eBook - PDF
I've Got the Light of Freedom
The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE 2007 EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE: SETTING THE STAGE
- TWO: TESTING THE LIMITS: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
- THREE: GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND A WAY: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
- FOUR: MOVING ON MISSISSIPPI
- FIVE: GREENWOOD: Building on the Past
- SIX: IF YOU DON'T GO, DON'T HINDER ME: The Redefinition of Leadership
- SEVEN: THEY KEPT THE STORY BEFORE ME: Families and Traditions
- EIGHT: SLOW AND RESPECTFUL WORK: Organizers and Organizing
- NINE: A WOMAN'S WAR
- TEN: TRANSITIONS
- ELEVEN: CARRYING ON: The Politics of Empowerment
- TWELVE: FROM SNCC TO SLICK: The Demoralization of the Movement
- THIRTEEN: MRS. HAMER IS NO LONGER RELEVANT: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition
- FOURTEEN: THE ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
- NOTES
- INTERVIEWS
- INDEX