John Dittmer

John Dittmer (October 30, 1939^[1] – July 19, 2024) was an American historian, and Professor Emeritus of DePauw University.^[2]

Life

John Dittmer was from Seymour, Indiana.^[3] He was the oldest of 6 children. He graduated from Shields High School in Seymour in 1957, being inducted into SHS Wall of Fame in 2006.^[4] He later graduated from Indiana University with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

He married Ellen Tobey and had a daughter named Julie. He enjoyed tennis and golf, and loved to watch IU football and basketball.

He taught American history at Tougaloo College from 1967 to 1979, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, and at DePauw University from 1985 until 2003.^[5] While at DePauw University, he was honored with multiple awards, including the United Methodist Church Exemplary Teaching Award in 2000, and Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Tucker Jr. Distinguished Career Award in 2003.

The John Dittmer Award at DePauw University is named in his honor.^[6]

He died on July 19, 2024 at 84 years old after a brief illness.^[7]

Reviews of other books

He reviewed The Confederate and New-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" (edited by James W. Loewen and Edward Sebesta). He called the book an "important" and "persuasive" book, and he argued that it should be "required reading for classroom teachers." He agreed with what the book had to say about "slavery, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction."^[8]

Awards

1995 Bancroft Prize
Lillian Smith Book Award

Works

Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-252-06507-1.
John Dittmer; George C. Wright; W. Marvin Dulaney; Kathleen Underwood (1993). W. Marvin Dulaney; Kathleen Underwood (eds.). Essays on the American civil rights movement. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-540-5.
Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. University of Illinois Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-252-00813-9.
Christopher C. Meyers, ed. (2008). "Black Georgia in the Progressive Era". The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-111-4.
The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2009. ISBN 978-1-59691-567-1.

References

^ "John Avery Dittmwe born". The Tribune. 1939-10-30. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
^ "The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program | OAH". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
^ "Prof. John Dittmer's New Book & Brian Mulroney's 1993 DePauw Visit Cited in Column on Health Care Reform".
^ "SHS Wall of Fame".
^ "Award-Winning Author and Historian, Prof. Emeritus John Dittmer, to Address 2009 Graduates - DePauw University". depauw.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
^ "John Dittmer Award", DePauw University Website. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
^ "Professor John Dittmer leaves legacy of scholarship and empathy". DePauw University. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
^ Loewen, James (2010). The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. pp. Back Cover. ISBN 978-1-60473-219-1.

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Prior to 1954	Journey of Reconciliation Executive Order 9981 Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore Sweatt v. Painter (1950) McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950) Baton Rouge bus boycott
1954–1959	Brown v. Board of Education Bolling v. Sharpe Briggs v. Elliott Davis v. Prince Edward County Gebhart v. Belton Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Emmett Till Montgomery bus boycott Browder v. Gayle Tallahassee bus boycott Mansfield school desegregation 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom "Give Us the Ballot" Royal Ice Cream sit-in Little Rock Nine Cooper v. Aaron Civil Rights Act of 1957 Ministers' Manifesto Katz Drug Store sit-in Kissing Case Biloxi wade-ins
1960–1963	New Year's Day March Sit-in movement Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Sibley Commission Atlanta sit-ins Savannah Protest Movement Greenville Eight Civil Rights Act of 1960 Ax Handle Saturday Gomillion v. Lightfoot Boynton v. Virginia University of Georgia desegregation riot Rock Hill sit-ins Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address Freedom Rides Anniston bombing Birmingham attack Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation now, segregation forever" Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963 Birmingham campaign Letter from Birmingham Jail Children's Crusade Birmingham riot 16th Street Baptist Church bombing John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights Detroit Walk to Freedom March on Washington "I Have a Dream" Big Six St. Augustine movement
1964–1968	Twenty-fourth Amendment Chester school protests Bloody Tuesday 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests Freedom Summer workers' murders Civil Rights Act of 1964 Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States Katzenbach v. McClung 1964–1965 Scripto strike 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches "How Long, Not Long" Voting Rights Act of 1965 Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections March Against Fear White House Conference on Civil Rights Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement Loving v. Virginia Memphis sanitation strike King assassination funeral riots Civil Rights Act of 1968 Poor People's Campaign Green v. County School Board of New Kent County Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. 1968 Olympics Black Power salute

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