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...most frightening thing about the situation," he concluded "is that it has unified the state of Mississippi behind Governor Barnett. Eight months ago, Barnett was extremely unpopular because he hasn't been a very good executive. If he were to run for office today, he would carry over 90 per cent of the state. There is absolutely no opposition in evidence...
That question passed from youth to youth as they gathered-2,000 of them-on the colonnaded campus at Oxford, Miss. Grey-uniformed state patrolmen were there; so were newsmen and television crews. Governor Ross Barnett, fresh from a long meeting with the state college board, from which he had extracted the authority to deal personally with "the nigger," flew into Oxford, drove to the campus, and there took over as special registrar of the university. Barnett had promised the people of Mississippi-despite telephone calls from U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who had warned him of the legal consequences...
...Mission. But Meredith was just as determined as his Governor. Like Barnett. he is one of ten children. Like Barnett, he is the son of a farmer. His grandfather was a slave (Barnett's father and grandfather were both Confederate soldiers), but James Meredith served in the U.S. Air Force and came out in 1960 a staff sergeant. A slight, shy man of 29, he became, in the words of Federal Appeals Judge John Minor Wisdom, before whom he appeared in his attempts to enter the university, a "man with a mission and a nervous stomach...
...students booed and chanted: "Two, four, six, eight -we don't want to integrate!" A few yelled: "Go home, nigger!" Meredith looked around, smiled thinly, furrowed his brow and followed his escorts into the Center for Continuation Studies. There, in a private session with Ross Barnett and his aides and the marshals, Meredith presented the federal court orders and his credentials...
More practically, the martyrdom of Ross Barnett will not add to the total enlightenment of the South...