Local People
Subtitle: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780252065071
Subjects: Local history; Mississippi; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Sociology; History: American; USA; Politics and government; History / United States / 20th Century; Civil rights movements; 20th century; African Americans; History; Suffrage
First sentence: On July 2, 1946, Medgar Wylie Evers celebrated his twenty-first birthday by leading a group of Word War II veterans, including his brother Charles, Through the nearly abandoned streets of Decatur.