Robert J. Norrell

The death of C. Vann Woodward in December 1999 removed from our presence the intellectual who had made the greatest contribution to improving Americans' understanding of our historic problem with race. Through his books, most notably The Strange Ca [...]

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. By John Dittmer. Illinois. $2995 I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. By Charles M.Payne. California.$28.00. The state of Mississip [...]