The Resource I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, Charles M. Payne
I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, Charles M. Payne
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- Summary
- This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. The leaders were ordinary women and men--sharecroppers, domestics, high school students, beauticians, independent farmers--committed to organizing the civil rights struggle house by house, block by block, relationship by relationship. Payne brilliantly brings to life the tradition of grassroots African American activism, long practiced yet poorly understood. Payne overturns familiar ideas about community activism in the 1960s. The young organizers who were the engines of change in the state were not following any charismatic national leader. Far from being a complete break with the past, their work was based directly on the work of an older generation of activists, people like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Aaron Henry. These leaders set the standards of courage against which young organizers judged themselves they served as models of activism that balanced humanism with militance. While historians have commonly portrayed the movement leadership as male, ministerial, and well-educated, Payne finds that organizers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the most dangerous parts of the South looked for leadership to working-class rural Blacks, and especially to women. Payne also finds that Black churches, typically portrayed as frontrunners in the civil rights struggle, were in fact late supporters of the movement
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 525 pages, [24] pages of plates
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half title page
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Greenwood: Building on the Past
- 6.
- If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition of Leadership
- 7.
- They Kept the Story Before Me: Families and Traditions
- 8.
- Slow and Respectful Work: Organizers and Organizing
- 9.
- A Woman's War
- 1.
- 10.
- Transitions
- 11.
- Carrying on: The Politics of Empowerment
- 12.
- From SNCC to Slick: The Demoralization of the Movement
- 13.
- Mrs. Hamer Is No Longer Relevant: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition
- 14.
- The Rough Draft of History
- Setting the Stage
- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History
- 2.
- Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
- 3.
- Give Light and the People Will Find a Way: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
- 4.
- Moving on Mississippi
- Isbn
- 9780520085152
- Label
- I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle
- Title
- I've got the light of freedom
- Title remainder
- the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles M. Payne
- Title variation
- I have got the light of freedom
- Subject
-
- African American civil rights workers
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
- Civil Rights Movement
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers
- 1900-1999
- Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations
- Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- History
- Mississippi
- Mississippi -- Greenwood
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Negers
- Race relations
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. The leaders were ordinary women and men--sharecroppers, domestics, high school students, beauticians, independent farmers--committed to organizing the civil rights struggle house by house, block by block, relationship by relationship. Payne brilliantly brings to life the tradition of grassroots African American activism, long practiced yet poorly understood. Payne overturns familiar ideas about community activism in the 1960s. The young organizers who were the engines of change in the state were not following any charismatic national leader. Far from being a complete break with the past, their work was based directly on the work of an older generation of activists, people like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Aaron Henry. These leaders set the standards of courage against which young organizers judged themselves they served as models of activism that balanced humanism with militance. While historians have commonly portrayed the movement leadership as male, ministerial, and well-educated, Payne finds that organizers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the most dangerous parts of the South looked for leadership to working-class rural Blacks, and especially to women. Payne also finds that Black churches, typically portrayed as frontrunners in the civil rights struggle, were in fact late supporters of the movement
- Awards note
- Lillian Smith Book Award, 1995
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Payne, Charles M
- Dewey number
- 323/.09762
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.93.M6
- LC item number
- P39 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- African American civil rights workers
- Civil rights workers
- Mississippi
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- Greenwood (Miss.)
- African American civil rights workers
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights workers
- Race relations
- Mississippi
- Mississippi
- Civil Rights Movement
- Negers
- Mississippi
- Greenwood (Miss.)
- Label
- I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, Charles M. Payne
- Link
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-487) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Greenwood: Building on the Past
- 6.
- If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition of Leadership
- 7.
- They Kept the Story Before Me: Families and Traditions
- 8.
- Slow and Respectful Work: Organizers and Organizing
- 9.
- A Woman's War
- 1.
- 10.
- Transitions
- 11.
- Carrying on: The Politics of Empowerment
- 12.
- From SNCC to Slick: The Demoralization of the Movement
- 13.
- Mrs. Hamer Is No Longer Relevant: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition
- 14.
- The Rough Draft of History
- Setting the Stage
- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History
- 2.
- Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
- 3.
- Give Light and the People Will Find a Way: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
- 4.
- Moving on Mississippi
- Control code
- ocm31134152
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 525 pages, [24] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780520085152
- Lccn
- 94024645
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o31134152
- (OCoLC)31134152
- Label
- I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, Charles M. Payne
- Link
- Note
- "A Centennial book"--Half title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-487) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Greenwood: Building on the Past
- 6.
- If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The Redefinition of Leadership
- 7.
- They Kept the Story Before Me: Families and Traditions
- 8.
- Slow and Respectful Work: Organizers and Organizing
- 9.
- A Woman's War
- 1.
- 10.
- Transitions
- 11.
- Carrying on: The Politics of Empowerment
- 12.
- From SNCC to Slick: The Demoralization of the Movement
- 13.
- Mrs. Hamer Is No Longer Relevant: The Loss of the Organizing Tradition
- 14.
- The Rough Draft of History
- Setting the Stage
- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History
- 2.
- Testing the Limits: Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
- 3.
- Give Light and the People Will Find a Way: The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
- 4.
- Moving on Mississippi
- Control code
- ocm31134152
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 525 pages, [24] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780520085152
- Lccn
- 94024645
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o31134152
- (OCoLC)31134152
Subject
- African American civil rights workers
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
- Civil Rights Movement
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi | Greenwood -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers
- 1900-1999
- Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations
- Greenwood (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- History
- Mississippi
- Mississippi -- Greenwood
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Negers
- Race relations
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
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