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

by Charles M. Payne · 1995 · 552 pages

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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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Subject
historypolitics
Themes
raceafrican americancivil rightsamerican historyhistory
Setting
20th centurymississippicollege
Audience
adult
Length
long · 552 pages

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