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Zusatztext "An illuminating examination of the Civil Rights movement at the local level, in this case Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1960s. As Payne deftly grafts Greenwood's struggle onto the larger movement, he challenges several widely accepted conclusions, such as overemphasizing a core cadre of male leaders while overlooking the important contributions of women and youth and the belief that the black church was an early leader in the movement. Much of Payne's information is culled from oral interviews with actual movement participants. The result is an important history of the Civil Rights movement at the grass-roots level . . . The excellent bibliographic essay is essential reading. Recommended for any library that collects Civil Rights materials." Informationen zum Autor Charles M. Payne is Professor and Bass Fellow! African American Studies! History and Sociology! Duke University Klappentext “With this history of the civil rights movement focusing on Everyman-turned-hero, the commoner as crusader for justice, Payne challenges the old idea that history is the biography of great men.”— Kirkus Reviews “Remarkably astute in its judgments and strikingly sophisticated in its analyses . . . it is one of the most significant studies of the Black freedom struggle yet published.”—David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Bearing the Cross “This extremely important book clearly reveals the logic of how ordinary people propelled the civil rights movement. . . . [It] provides a basis for optimism as we approach the next century.”—Aldon Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
