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Dittmer, John Avery was born on October 30, 1939 in Seymour, Indiana, United States. Son of J. Avery and Melba Roberta (Ahlbrand) Dittmer.
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi LOCAL PEOPLE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI By Dittmer, John ( Author )May-01-1995 Paperback
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Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World)
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)
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For 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 areFannie 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 "ou
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John Avery Dittmer
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John Avery Dittmer, American History educator. Recipient Younger Humanist fellowship National Endowment for Humanities, 1973-1974, fellowship-in-residence National Endowment for Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 1976-1977, fellowship Rockefeller Foundation, 1980-1981, American Council Learned Socs., 1983-1984, Center for Study of Civil Rights, University of Virginia, 1988-1989.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Education, Indiana University, 1961. Master of Arts in History, Indiana University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Indiana University, 1971.
Career
Assistant professor, Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1967-1968; academic dean, Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1968-1970; associate professor, Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1971-1979; associate professor of history, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1985-1992; professor, ^, ^, ^., since 1993. Visiting associate professor Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island, 1979-1980, 81-82, 83-84, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982-1984. Consultant National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1980-1983, Public Broadcasting Service Series, Eyes on the Prize, Boston, 1986.
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Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World)
(The book Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 ...)
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)
(For decades the most racially repressive state in the nat...)
- Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World) by John Dittmer (1977-10-01)
- Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-20
- Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi LOCAL PEOPLE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI By Dittmer, John ( Author )May-01-1995 Paperback
- Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) 1st edition by Dittmer, John (1995) Paperback
- Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) by John Dittmer (1995-05-01)
- (Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi) Author: John Dittmer published on (May, 1995)
- Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World)
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Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Blacks in the New World)
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Member Organization of America Historians (Frederick Jackson Turner award finalist 1972), Southern History Association, American History Association.
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Married Ellen Ann Tobey, June 3, 1961. Children: Julia Susan, John David.
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American
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1961
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1964
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1971
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1967 - 1968
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1968 - 1970
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1985 - 1992
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Younger Humanist fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1973-1974, fellowship-in-residence National Endowment of the Humanities, 1976-1977, fellow Rockefeller Foundation, 1980-1981, American Council Learned Societies, 1983-1984, Center Study Civil Rights University Virginia, 1988-1989, National Endowment of the Humanities, 2000-2001, National Humanities Center, 2001-2001. Grantee Ford Foundation, since 2005.Younger Humanist fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1973-1974, fellowship-in-residence National Endowment of the Humanities, 1976-1977, fellow Rockefeller Foundation, 1980-1981, American Council Learned Societies, 1983-1984, Center Study Civil Rights University Virginia, 1988-1989, National Endowment of the Humanities, 2000-2001, National Humanities Center, 2001-2001. Grantee Ford Foundation, since 2005.