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cover of Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

John Dittmer

University of Illinois Press, 1977

 "This is the best treatment scholars
  have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century."
  --  Howard N. Rabinowitz,
Journal of American History
"The author shows clearly and forcefully
  the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower
  caste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review.
 
  "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is
  especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement,
  woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial
  violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout
  the period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.
 
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cover of Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century

Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier

University of Illinois Press, 1988

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cover of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Local People

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

John Dittmer

University of Illinois Press, 1994

Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Mississippi Historical Society McLemore Prize, the Herbert G. Gutman Prize and the Gustavus Myers Center for Study of Human Rights Outstanding Book Prize.

Publication of this book was supported by a grant from DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
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