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

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

Charles M. Payne

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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.

Genres: HistoryNonfictionRacePoliticsAmerican HistorySocial JusticeActivismAfrican AmericanSocial MovementsUnited States

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