John Dittmer is professor emeritus of history at DePauw University. He is author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994), which won a Bancroft Prize, and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights, Race, and the Politics of Health Care in America (2009), about a group of health care professionals active not only in the Deep South at the height of the civil rights movement but also as part of the New Left during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Lecture topics:

• The Good Doctors: Race and Health Care During the Civil Rights Era
• The Civil Rights Movement and the Possibilities of Democracy

Viewed Saturday, November 21, 2009