books.google.com - 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. For decades the most racially repressive state in the nation fought bitterly and violently...http://books.google.com/books/about/Local_People_The_Struggle_for_Civil_Righ.html?id=-k9Wyp87Z7cC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLocal People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi