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Local people : the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi /

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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 de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dittmer, John, 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995]
Edition:Illini books ed.
Series:Blacks in the New World.
Subjects:
African Americans > Mississippi > Politics and government.
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Mississippi > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Mississippi > Politics and government > 1951-
Noirs américains > Mississippi > Politique et gouvernement.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Mississippi.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mississippi > Relations raciales.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Suffrage.
Civil rights movements.
Politics and government
Race relations.
Mississippi.
Since 1865
History.
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:530 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0252065077
9780252065071