Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ole Miss...
...University of Mississippi campus at Oxford. A bell signaled the end of 9 o'clock classes, and students poured from the stately, white-columned buildings. They merged into a sea of laughing, chattering youngsters, milling about on spacious green lawns. For a moment, the view at Ole Miss looked like any between-classes scene at any big, well-landscaped, coeducational college in the U.S. on any fine autumn...
...Ole Miss has its attractions-a green and pleasant campus, a perennially powerful football team, and very pretty coeds, two of whom won the Miss America contest in successive years, 1958 and 1959. But it is a cheerfully unintellectual institution with nothing special to offer the mind of an earnest man of 29. As a symbol of the Negroes' struggle for justice, Meredith's cause was worth all the trouble it stirred up, but as an individual's aspiration for intellectual fulfillment, it was hardly persuasive...
...life, liberty or property without due process of law," and from denying any person "the equal protection of the laws." In 1954 the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment. In keeping with that decision, James Meredith's right to attend Ole Miss was affirmed by a federal district court, confirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and upheld by Justice Hugo Black, speaking with the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Collision Course. After that, there was only one way for Governor Barnett to prevent Meredith's admission to the university without coming into head-on conflict with the Federal Government: he could shut down the university. But the students at Ole Miss, with their futures at stake, wanted it to stay open. So did their parents. So did the townsmen of Oxford, dependent on the university for economic survival. So did many Mississippians who have never seen the university's campus but follow the fortunes of its football team with impassioned pride. And as long as the university...