Word: lyceum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richmond, Wis., Doar is a model of raw courage. At Ole Miss with Chief U.S. Marshall McShane, when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes and trigger-itchy cops in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Walking alone between...
...Memphis set down at the Oxford airport. Wearing white helmets and orange riot vests stuffed with tear-gas canisters, 167 marshals loaded into waiting Army trucks and chugged off to the campus half a mile away. At 5 p.m.-it was then 7 p.m. in Washington -marshals surrounded the Lyceum, the old, red brick administration building where Meredith was to register...
...Length of Pipe. The crowd in front of the Lyceum had grown bigger and uglier. First it turned on newsmen in a face-punching, camera-smashing frenzy. Then up rolled the 60-man local National Guard unit. It was Troop E of the Second Reconnaissance Squadron of the 108th Armored Cavalry Division, under the command of Captain Murry C. Falkner, nephew of Oxford's late Novelist William Faulkner...
During the next few hours, additional military units poured into Oxford in a swelling tide that by early morning had engulfed the campus and the town. Shortly before 8 a.m., Marshal McShane and two other men accompanied Meredith in a car to the battered Lyceum to register. They met with no resistance. Meredith listed his academic goal as a degree in political science, claimed credits (from extension courses) that would enable him to get a degree in a year and a half...