Local People (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Dittmer
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1945 to 1968
- Setting: Mississippi; Washington, D.C.; Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Robert Parris Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, James Meredith, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Aaron Henry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hodding Carter III
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Social action, 1960’s, Politics, Racism, South or Southerners, Social issues, Elections, Liberalism
- Locales: Mississippi, Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, NJ
To understand race relations in the United States in the 1990’s, one must be aware of the blatant injustices to which blacks were subjected in the South until the late 1960’s; one must also know something about the Civil Rights movement, which arose to fight against such injustices. As the 1960’s have become ever more distant in time, more and more academic historians have begun to write about the movement.
At first, historians wrote either biographies of the most famous civil rights leader (Martin Luther King, Jr.) or studies of the major national civil rights...
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