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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- John Dittmer, professor emeritus of history at DePauw University and an award-winning author, delivered the final lecture in the Indiana University Maurer School of Law's Brown at 60 series on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Dittmer spoke on “School Desegregation in the Heart of Dixie: Mississippi Then and Now,” at noon in the Law School’s Moot Court Room. Dittmer is a nationally recognized authority on the civil rights movement. In 1995, his book "Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi" was awarded the Bancroft Prize, honoring the best of American history writing. His other works include "Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920" and "The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care." Dittmer earned three degrees from Indiana University and went on to teach at Tougaloo College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University before settling at DePauw, where he retired in 2003. DePauw University now bestows the John Dittmer Award every year to the American history student with the highest GPA within the major.