Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riot, which broke out when Negro James Meredith enrolled in previously segregated Ole Miss, shook the college to its foundations. Mississippians suddenly had to get used to the idea of integration at the "white folks school." national attention forced the University out of its comfortable regionalism. Political issues became paramount: white Mississippians had to choose between moderation and a last-ditch defense of the state's traditions...
...however, there are signs that Ole Miss is sliding back into its old pose of quiet case. The last class that went through the Meredith experience graduated in June; already the new students have begun to re-focus on sorority-fraternity politics and the Mississippi football game. The state-pointed Board of Trustees, which has been surprisingly tolerant during the last four years, is once again making noises about clearing the "radicals" out of Ole Miss. And the liberals on the college faculty, who have fought a constant series of battles for academic freedom since the Meredith year, are tiring...
...year after the riot, as long James Meredith was still at the University, U.S. troops remained on campus. The sight of federal troops at Ole Miss was almost as galling to white Mississippians as the presence of Meredith, for the University of Mississippi is very much the pride of the state, in everything from its football team to its law school. There are two larger schools in the state, Mississippi State and Mississippi Southern, but Ole Miss is Mississippi. The state's brightest students have always gone to Ole Miss; its political leaders, both good and bad, have always begun...
...History department and author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, an account of Mississippi's well-oiled system for stifling dissent. Although Silver was not actually fired, Governor Ross Barnett and the Board of Trustees were openly hostile to him. After the departure of Silver and some other faculty liberals, Ole Miss Chancellor J.D. Williams commented, "It's best that they go--it is best for them, it is best...
During and after the riot, almost everyone at Ole Miss had some contact with the national press, which swarmed over the campus. Many students were recruited for on-the-spot television and radio interviews, which were subsequently edited beyond recognition to perpetuate the national image of the Mississippi anarchist-bigot. Photographers sought out the most hot-headed rednecks on campus and egged them into spouting vicious diatribes and posing for indicting pictures. National television carried shots of one student pulling down the American flag and running the Confederate flag up the University flagpole in its place. According to several...