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This 5 page paper discusses the explanations given by Charles Payne about the involvement of women in the civil rights movment, as well as the activity of black veterans. Work used: I've Got the Light of Freedom. Quotes cited from the text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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crux of Charles Paynes book, Ive Got the Light of Freedom. But, if Payne stopped only with an examination of womens rights then the book would be no more or
less interesting than half of the books on the shelves with the same topic. Rather, Payne saw what a double struggle it was for women who were also of color.
To that end, then, he suggests that black veterans and black women had nothing to lose by embracing the civil rights or womens movements, because they had already gone down
as far as they could fall in society. It was time for change. Most black women, as succinctly stated by Fannie Lou Hamer, were sick and tired of being
sick and tired. Illustrated as one of many women who were influential in the civil rights movement, she depicts the women who were tired of watching life go by and
worse yet, were worried for their childrens futures. As a member of the SNCC she joined with others in encouraging black communities to take part in the civil disobedience
movement. She was particularly noted for her work at the voters registration booths and in bringing the black vote to the polls. Payne uses Hamer to example ordinary people who
did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black voters would never have voted. If one goes back far
enough, to the grassroots movements of the civil rights movement and the womens movement, one would find that many of the first activists were not male, but female. And yet,
a great deal of them are never mentioned in the history books. This is because during this time in history, women were nonentities. There were no women reporters, and therefore
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