| I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, with a New Preface Contributor(s): Payne, Charles M. (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0520251768 ISBN-13: 9780520251762 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: "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" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: 323.097 |
| LCCN: 2006050031 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (2.00 lbs) 552 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Deep South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |