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This 5 page report discusses the young man who in 1962 found himself as the focal point of the civil rights movement when he became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, 'Ole Miss.' Four years later, he was gunned down while leading the 'March Against Fear,' an effort to encourage African Americans to vote. He has remained active in civil rights but his conservative views have alienated many. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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was far from the best and safest of places for a black boy to be growing up. His parents were strong advocates for hard work and family values and by
his own accounts, it was his parents who created the need within him to "do the right thing." At 18, he left home to join the Air Force, where he
served for nine years. James Meredith, challenged tore the racial fabric of everday life in the South when, in the fall of 1962,
he enrolled at the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss") in Oxford, Mississippi. after ignoring the question of race on an application, he was granted admission to "Ole Miss" but
when the college administrators discovered he was black, the admission was withdrawn. sued. Rioters rampaged through the campus and a human line was formed to block his admission to the
university. On the basis of a federal court order and after repeated attempts at obstruction by Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, he was accompanied by federal marshals as he entered the
campus. Ultimately, two men were killed, 160 federal marshals injured, and 28 shot. The Kennedy administration was forced to order in the National Guard and federal troops to stand
against the hundreds of heavily armed white supremacists and students. It took 20,000 federal troops to keep the peace (Russell 1). James Meredith was not injured, at least
not that particular day. Federal troops remained on campus until received his diploma in August 1963. went on to study at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. In 1966,
in what Martin Luther King Jr. then called the " the biggest, most momentous march in history," led the "March Against Fear," a march designed to increase voter registration among
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