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Meredith was introduced to the large gathering by NSA President Dennis Shaul, who said Meredith "walked with dignity in an exceedingly difficult time." The first Negro ever to enter Ole Miss received a standing ovation, and began "I am somewhat shaken by the enthusiasm of my reception...
...that, he had gone on statewide TV in the fall of 1960 to support Kennedy for President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood up for Mississippi" at Ole Miss, so wasn't it about time Mississippi stood up for him? For comic relief, he threw in a surefire laugh-getter: "You know what the N.A.A.C.P. stands for: Niggers, alligators apes, coons and possums...
...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...