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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog alternative "I have got the light of freedom".
• catalog contributor b7466345.
• catalog coverage "Greenwood (Miss.) Race relations History 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "Greenwood (Miss.) Race relations.".
• catalog coverage "Mississippi Race relations History 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "Mississippi Race relations.".
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "1. Setting the Stage -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-487) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 525 p., [24] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0520085159 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520207068 (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Greenwood (Miss.) Race relations History 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "Greenwood (Miss.) Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi Greenwood".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi Race relations History 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi.".
• catalog subject "323/.09762 20".
• catalog subject "African American civil rights workers Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Mississippi Greenwood History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Mississippi.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements Mississippi Greenwood History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights workers Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "E185.93.M6 P39 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Setting the Stage -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Bibliographic Essay: The Social Construction of History.".
• catalog title "I have got the light of freedom".
• catalog title "I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / Charles M. Payne.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".