Reddit reviews I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
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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.
This is not something with me and my friends- I doubt I will know more than 10 people there. We are not protesting the NYPD, we are protesting how police are used in this country.
My first introduction was through this book http://www.amazon.com/Lockdown-America-Police-Prisons-Crisis/dp/1844672492
I figure it's still a good start and talks about the police here in NC too. For a better understanding of social movements and strategy I would check out http://www.amazon.com/Ive-Got-Light-Freedom-Mississippi/dp/0520251768/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417723926&sr=1-1&keywords=I%27ve+got+the+light+of+freedom.
It seems like you don't care if protest is effective, you just don't want to have to deal with it?
I've Got The Light of Freedom isn't a novel per se, but the author is as much a story teller as he is a scholar. It's a thick book, but I found it terribly moving and a page turner. For what it's worth, all 9 reviewers on Amazon give it 5 out of 5.
The book tells the complex story of the civil rights movement from the ground level in Mississippi. Issues of class, age, gender, and ideology threaten to break the movement at every turn as people fight for the life of their community. Can't recommend it enough.