Taking the Fight South: Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

In this "entertaining and informative" memoir, a Jewish civil rights activist recounts living in Mississippi and fighting for racial equity (Howard Winant, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States).

In Taking the Fight South, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when he and his Jewish family moved from New York City to Starkville, Mississippi, where he received a tenured position in the political science department...