I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface - Softcover

Payne, Charles M.

 
9780520251762: I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520251768 ISBN 13: 9780520251762
Verlag: University of California Press, 2007

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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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Charles M. Payne is Professor and Bass Fellow, African American Studies, History and Sociology, Duke University

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“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

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&;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

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520251768
ISBN 13 
9780520251762
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
579
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