John
Dittmer 1939-
Major Works
- Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
(Blacks in the New World) 1994
- Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
1980
- Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement
By John Dittmer, George C. Wright, W. Marvin Dulaney, Kathleen
Underwood 1993
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Biography of John
Dittmer
JOHN DITTMER, a professor emeritus 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.
His book Local People:The Struggle for Civil Rights in
Mississippi won the following awards:
- Bancroft Prize in American History
- Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council
- McLemore Prize, Mississippi Historical Society
- 1995 Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America given by the Gustavus Myers Center
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Related Websites
 Amazon.com's
editorial reviews of Local People.
Fighting
For the Soul of the Democratic Party
by John Dittmer in Yesmagazine in Fall 2003.
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