Oct. 1, 1962 (UPI) -- Negro James Meredith registered today at the University of Mississippi and began attending classes on a campus littered with the debris of a major riot that took two lives ...
Thanks to a determined group of 17 graduating seniors at Florida State University, James Howard Meredith is fully home now. It’s time. In cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Archives ...
(AP) — A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of James Meredith, honoring the Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962.
The inside story of James Meredith's war against racial ... By becoming the first black person to apply to the all-white university of Mississippi - Meredith will draw in the KKK and JFK - and ...
James Meredith knew he was putting ... federal marshals escorted Meredith as he enrolled as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, while white people rioted on the Oxford ...