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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.
Price: $20.95
Pages: 552
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
16 March 2007
ISBN: 9780520933880
Format: eBook
PREFACE TO THE 2007 EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ONE
SETTING THE STAGE
TWO
TESTING THE LIMITS
Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
THREE
GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND A WAY
The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
FOUR
MOVING ON MISSISSIPPI
FIVE
GREENWOOD
Building on the Past
SIX
IF YOU DON'T GO, DON'T HINDER ME
The Redefinition of Leadership
SEVEN
THEY KEPT THE STORY BEFORE ME
Families and Traditions
EIGHT
SLOW AND RESPECTFUL WORK
Organizers and Organizing
NINE
A WOMAN S WAR
TEN
TRANSITIONS
ELEVEN
CARRYING ON
The Politics of Empowerment
TWELVE
FROM SNCC TO SLICK
The Demoralization if the Movement
THIRTEEN
MRS. HAMER IS NO LONGER RELEVANT
The Loss if the Organizing Tradition
FOURTEEN
THE ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
NOTES
INTERVIEWS
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ONE
SETTING THE STAGE
TWO
TESTING THE LIMITS
Black Activism in Postwar Mississippi
THREE
GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND A WAY
The Roots of an Organizing Tradition
FOUR
MOVING ON MISSISSIPPI
FIVE
GREENWOOD
Building on the Past
SIX
IF YOU DON'T GO, DON'T HINDER ME
The Redefinition of Leadership
SEVEN
THEY KEPT THE STORY BEFORE ME
Families and Traditions
EIGHT
SLOW AND RESPECTFUL WORK
Organizers and Organizing
NINE
A WOMAN S WAR
TEN
TRANSITIONS
ELEVEN
CARRYING ON
The Politics of Empowerment
TWELVE
FROM SNCC TO SLICK
The Demoralization if the Movement
THIRTEEN
MRS. HAMER IS NO LONGER RELEVANT
The Loss if the Organizing Tradition
FOURTEEN
THE ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
NOTES
INTERVIEWS
INDEX