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	Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 John Dittmer University of Illinois Press, 1977 Library of Congress E185.93.G4D57 \| Dewey Decimal 975.800496073 "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. Expand Description
	Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century Edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier University of Illinois Press, 1988
	Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi John Dittmer University of Illinois Press, 1994 Library of Congress E185.93.M6D58 1994 \| Dewey Decimal 323.11960730762 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. Expand Description

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3 books about Dittmer, John

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

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.

Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier

University of Illinois Press, 1988

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

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.