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...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...
...Ole Miss, by damn...
...Ole Miss yell spiraled through the crisp sunlit air like a football passed by Chuckin' Charley Conerly of legendary lore. Boys, lean and brimming with youthful vigor, horseplayed around-almost as if they were unconscious of the pretty coeds who watched them. Right down to the blue and maroon freshman beanies, the scene was of the sort to make alumni hearts swell with bittersweet memories of days long gone. But beneath all the laughter, beneath all the seeming exuberance, was an ugly, constantly recurring question. "When," the kids asked one another, "will the nigger come...
Having been granted the right to "something more" by a series of federal court decisions, Meredith arrived on the Ole Miss campus last week in the company of police officers and federal marshals and attorneys...