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100 1 $aDittmer, John,$d1939-
245 10 $aLocal people :$bthe struggle for civil rights in Mississippi /$cJohn Dittmer.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c©1994.
300 $a530 pages :$bportraits, maps ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aBlacks in the New World
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 439-512) and index.
505 00 $tWe return fighting --$tRising expectations, 1946-54 --$tThe magnolia jungle --$tToward a new beginning --$tOutside agitators --$tInto the delta --$tGreenwood and Jackson --$tOrganizing Mississippi --$tConflicting strategies --$tFreedom days --$tThat summer --$tThe Mississippi freedom Democratic party and the Atlantic City challenge --$tAftermath in McComb --$tBattle fatigue --$tThe collapse of the COFO coalition --$tCDGM and the politics of poverty --$tThe last march --$tA new Mississippi?
520 $aFor decades the most racially repressive state in the nation fought bitterly and violently to maintain white supremacy. John Dittmer traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people, particularly courageous members of the black communities who were willing to put their lives on the line to establish basic human rights for all citizens of the state. Local People tells the whole grim story in depth for the first time, from the unsuccessful attempts of black World War II veterans to register to vote to the seating of a civil rights-oriented Mississippi delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Particularly dramatic - and heartrending - is Dittmer's account of the tumultuous decade of the sixties: the freedom rides of 1961, which resulted in the imprisonment at Parchman of dozens of participants; the violent reactions to protests in McComb and Jackson and to voter registration drives in Greenwood and other cities; the riot in Oxford when James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss; the cowardly murder of long-time leader Medgar Evers; and the brutal Klan lynchings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Dittmer looks closely at the policies and actions of the Kennedy administration, which, bowing to Mississippi's powerful senators John Stennis and James Eastland, refused to intervene even in the face of obvious collusion among local officials and vigilantes. Through oral history accounts readers will come to know many of the local people and grass-roots organizers who worked, and in some cases gave their lives, for the cause of civil rights. Among those whose stories are told are Fannie Lou Hamer, the Sunflower County sharecropper who helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party; Victoria Gray and Annie Devine, who with Mrs. Hamer challenged the seating of Mississippi's congressional delegation in 1965; Bob Moses of SNCC, the most significant "outsider" in the movement; Hollis Watkins, a SNCC field secretary from southwest Mississippi; and Dave Dennis, a freedom rider from New Orleans who became CORE's Mississippi field secretary in 1962. In the final chapter, Dittmer charts the transformative strength of the Mississippi movement while pointing out the limitations of its hard-earned reforms. If black Mississippians did not achieve all their goals, he reminds us, they nonetheless managed to bring about extraordinary changes in a state that had been locked in the caste system for nearly a century.
586 $aLillian Smith Book Award, 1994
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
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650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSuffrage$zMississippi.
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830 0 $aBlacks in the New World.
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