Local people : the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi / John Dittmer.
Material type: TextSeries: Blacks in the New WorldPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1994.Description: 530 p. : ports., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0252021029 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780252021022 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0252065077 (pbk.: acid-free paper)
- 9780252065071 (pbk.: acid-free paper)
- E185.93.M6 D58 1994
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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?