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...ironies of Mississippi have forever baffled the outsider, as they should. Two and a half years after Meredith's admission, Governor Ross Barnett's principal antagonist of that time, Bobby Kennedy, gave the commencement address at Ole Miss. He was introduced by Senator Jim Eastland and received a standing ovation. Twelve years after the event, Ben Williams, also of Yazoo City, the first black football player at Ole Miss, was elected Colonel Rebel by the student body, the highest honor for a male student. (He is now with the Buffalo Bills.) More recently, Mississippi's Leontyne Price...
There are about 700 black students at Ole Miss out of an enrollment of 10,000, or 7%. The university actively recruits blacks and encourages their participation in extracurricular activities. The Ole Miss football team is roughly half black; the basketball team predominantly black. In a society where organized sports are more than a ritual, Ole Miss partisans cheer their black players as enthusiastically as they do the whites, and the outstanding ones are authentic campus heroes...
...final contention lies in the traditional symbols of the Old South. Many blacks complain of the school fight song Dixie, the mascot Colonel Rebel and the waving of the Confederate battle flag at athletic events. The university's first black cheerleader, John Hawkins of Water Valley, Miss., attracted attention before the first football game of this season when he announced he would not carry the Confederate flag on the field. His wishes were understood by both the administration and many of the students. Hawkins, as well as Steve Sloan, the fine young Ole Miss football coach, favors a modified...
...place here, for Mississippi has always been the crucible of the national guilt. Much remains to be accomplished, although there is a tolerance of independent expression in Mississippi now that does its own deepest traditions proud. With the flourishing of that tolerance, the young whites and blacks of Ole Miss have more in common than they may for the moment think. They spring mutually from a traditional order and, more than any other young Americans, they know how to make a story and spin a tale. Public high school graduating classes last spring were the first in which whites...
Allison Brown, daughter of an old white Mississippi family, honor student, campus beauty and editor of the Meredith issue of the Ole Miss magazine, has written for her editorial: "We are of a generation in Mississippi who knows firsthand that blacks and whites can actually work together, grow up together, and share common experiences. Even at Ole Miss, where tradition hangs on until the very last thread, much progress has been made . . . Our generation can do something about it. We can work toward the inevitable changes that will make Ole Miss a better place for people of all races...