Local People - The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

In 1964, nearly a thousand volunteers went to Mississippi to work with veteran civil rights organizers and local people on various projects. The summer began with three Ku Klux Klan murders and ended with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party's challenge to the state's segregationist delegation. This definitive analytical history--well-written and well-researched--tells the dramatic story. Photos.

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John Dittmer

Product details

• Authors: John Dittmer
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1995
• EAN: 9780252065071
• ISBN: 978-0-252-06507-1
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 832 g
• Series: Blacks in the New World; Blacks in the New World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore