I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface

by Charles M. Payne

For wealthier whites in the South, lynching was beginning to look counterproductive. In 1939, Ames noted, “we have managed to reduce lynchings . . . not because we’ve grown more law-abiding or respectable but because lynchings became such bad advertising. The South is going after big industry at the