Summary: In this first episode, we speak with Tess Raser, an organizer with Assata's Daughters and teacher in Chicago's Parkway Gardens, and Quinn Rallins, social activist, organizer, essayist, and poet. We chat with Tess & Quinn about I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne, originally published in 1995. I've Got the Light of Freedom offers an in-depth history of the early civil rights movement in the south, highlighting the work of Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and everyday community members doing on-the-ground work in places like Greenwood, Mississippi.
