Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doors and waiting room entrances of more than 300 Southern rail, bus and air terminals. When the enrollment of Negro James Meredith at the University of Mississippi last fall led to an explosion of mob violence, President Kennedy sent 16,000 federal troops to Oxford to put down the Ole Miss disorders...
...Governor-appointed Ole Miss board of trustees was powerless to prevent the usurpation of its authority and functions by Ross Barnett, but in Alabama the constitution, as the result of a turn-of-the-century scandal over political meddling in the university, makes the trustees independent by providing that vacancies on the board are to be filled by vote of the board itself. Ole Miss is a way of making Mississippi kids into Mississippi adults; Alabama is more rigorously concerned with the pursuit of knowledge...
Spineless leadership left Ole Miss students unprepared for an orderly transition to integration. As early as last November, the Alabama board of trustees went firmly on record: "This board will not condone, and will take such measures as it may deem necessary to prevent, violence, riot and disorder." Similar no-nonsense statements swiftly followed from the alumni organization, the university faculty and the student council...
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Ole Miss Student James Meredith...
From the explosion at the University of Mississippi last fall came more fallout last week: an exodus of professors. Chancellor John D. Williams admitted only 16 resignations, but newsmen discovered about 35 in the works-more than one-third of the professors at Ole Miss...