Reflections on SNCC History: 30 years of Charles Payne’s I've got the Light of Freedom

This virtual event will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Charles M. Payne’s groundbreaking history of the Mississippi movement, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Payne will be joined in conversation by SNCC veteran Charlie Cobb, radical teacher Tess Raser, and historians of the Black freedom movement Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Emilye Crosby. 30 years after it was first published, this history remains a critical text for new generations of organizers carrying forward the struggle for freedom and justice.