I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

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, Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in such places as Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. 27 photos.

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The state of Mississippi, which along with Alabama was part of the Old Southwest, entered the Union in 1817 and was made rich by cotton before its economy was destroyed in the Civil War. Civil rights for black Americans was guaranteed by the amendments that followed the Civil War, but in practice they were denied throughout the country and especially in the South.

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