Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, Paperback/John Dittmer
Description Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi About the Author John Dittmer, a professor of history at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, is the author of Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. From 1967 to 1979 he taught history at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.