Word: oles
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...years ago this week, the campus of the University of Mississippi was shattered by riots protesting the admission of the first black student. TIME asked Mississippian Willie Morris, the author (North Toward Home, Terrains of the Heart) and former editor of Harper's magazine, to examine changes at Ole Miss since then...
...federal marshals and National Guardsmen and airborne troops confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think of the lines of Yeats...
There will be an anniversary observance at Ole Miss this week, and this suggests much about the transfigurations here. The Ole Miss magazine, sponsored by the student newspaper, is devoting a special issue to the lessons of that catastrophe. There will be a ceremony under the auspices of the university not far from the Lyceum Building, where one may still see the bullet holes in the façades. It has been organized by Lucius Williams, a black vice chancellor. Awards will be presented to distinguished black graduates. Porter Fortune, the chancellor, a Chapel Hill man who since he came...
...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...