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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...
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...
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...