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Bookmark or Share- James Meredith at Ole Miss - 1962 Riot, Timeline & Ross Barnett - HISTORYJames Meredith, an African American man, attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. Chaos soon broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead,...
- James Meredith | Biography & Facts | BritannicaJames Meredith, American civil rights activist who gained national renown at a key juncture in the civil rights movement in 1962, when he became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Following riots, he was admitted to the school under the protection of federal marshals.
- James Meredith risked his life doing civil rights work. At 90, he says ...JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — James Meredith knew he was putting his life in danger in the 1960s by pursuing what he believes was his divine mission: conquering white supremacy in the deeply, and often violently, segregated state of Mississippi. A half-century later, the civil rights leader is still talking about his mission from God.
- Meredith, James Howard | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...June 25, 1933. Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries. In Martin Luther King’s famous “ Letter from Birmingham Jail ,” he called James Meredith, the first African American to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962, a hero of the civil rights movement.
- Civil rights activist James Meredith shot | June 6, 1966 - HISTORYJames H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South.
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