Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

"The definitive analytical history of the black freedom movement in the nation's most recalcitrant state."
-- Julian Bond

"A gripping portrait of largely forgotten civil rights workers who forged racial change in the face of violence and murder. . . . Redefines the roles of national leaders who were forced to act by the unswerving determination of local people."
-- William Ferris, New York Times Book Review

"At once the movement's history in microcosm and a powerful story in its own right."
-- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"Dittmer's stirring history of the struggle for racial justice in Mississippi tells the story in all its grim, often shocking detail."
-- Publishers Weekly