Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Higgs, who was at the top of his own graduating class from Ole Miss, predicted that "if Meredith is shot, it will be one of the biggest international incidents of this century." But Higgs told his Liberal Union audience that Meredith's murder would lead to very strong legislative and executive action by the Federal government on civil rights...
Meredith's battle to get into Ole Miss was a continuation of a struggle that traces back to when he was 15 years old. As a boy on his father's farm in the Mississippi backlands. he had never perceived the gulfs that separated whites and Negroes. But when he was 15. his father drove the family to Detroit to visit relatives. James and a brother stayed behind when the family went back to Mississippi. When the time came for the brothers to go home, they went by train. "The train wasn't segregated when we left...
...courts, but once the legal battle was lost, they were prepared to submit and let Meredith enroll. Then Mississippi's fumbling Governor Ross Barnett interfered (TIME. Oct. 5). Barnett's overt defiance of the law provided a cause to rally around, not only for Ole Miss students, but for racists all over Mississippi and in other Southern states...
...defiance. The President still hoped to avoid sending military forces into Oxford. At one point during the 1960 campaign, he had said in reference to Little Rock: "There is more power in the presidency than to let things drift and then suddenly call out the troops." All during the Ole Miss crisis, that gibe at Eisenhower must have haunted John Kennedy. He desperately wanted to be able to avoid any accusations that he had let things drift and then suddenly called out the troops...
Most of the attackers, operating in darkness as members of a mob, escaped not only injury but arrest. Marshals and MPs took about 200 prisoners, but most of them were soon released for lack of solid evidence. Of those prisoners, only 24 were Ole Miss students; another score or so were students from other Mississippi colleges and from Southwestern at Memphis College. The rest, pretty seedy specimens, were intruders who had nothing to do with any university." A dozen of them, including men from Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas as well as Mississippi, were arraigned on charges of insurrection...