num_pages: 560
description: 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.
language: English
title: Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
titlecomplete: Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
genres: Historical, Grad School, Politics, Nonfiction, American History, Southern, Race, History
ratings_count: 199
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: University of Illinois Press