TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dittmer,John
TI  - Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi 
SN  - 0252021029 (cloth : acid-free paper)
AV  - E185.93.M6 D58 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Race relations
KW  - 1865-1950
KW  - 1951-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-512) and index; We return fighting -- Rising expectations, 1946-54 -- The magnolia jungle -- Toward a new beginning -- Outside agitators -- Into the delta -- Greenwood and Jackson -- Organizing Mississippi -- Conflicting strategies -- Freedom days -- That summer -- The Mississippi freedom Democratic party and the Atlantic City challenge -- Aftermath in McComb -- Battle fatigue -- The collapse of the COFO coalition -- CDGM and the politics of poverty -- The last march -- A new Mississippi?
ER  -