Major Works
John Dittmer, Photo courtesy of the author
- Freedom Summer: A Brief History with Documents – co-authored with Jeff Kolnick and Leslie Burl McLemore (2016)
- The Good Doctors (2009)
- Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) (1994)
- Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement – co-authored with George C. Wright, W. Marvin Dulaney, and Kathleen Underwood (1993)
- Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (1977)
Biography of John Dittmer
John Dittmer is a professor emeritus of history at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, who was born in 1939. From 1967 to 1979 he taught history at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He also has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University.
He is the author of Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. His book Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi won the following awards:
- Bancroft Prize in American History
- Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council
- McLemore Prize, Mississippi Historical Society
- 1995 Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America given by the Gustavus Myers Center