| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Critical historical encounters |
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Critical historical encounters.
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| Contents |
The Mississippi way -- Growing up Black in Mississippi -- Growing up white in Mississippi -- Black GIs challenge the "Mississippi way" -- Whites mobilize against the "second reconstruction" -- Part two : confrontation at Ole Miss -- James Meredith puts Ole Miss on trial -- The battle of Ole Miss -- Mission accomplished : Ole Miss integrated? -- Intended and unintended consequences |
| Summary |
James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government to send thousands of soldiers to restore the peace. In The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States' Rights, Frank Lambert--who was a student at Ole Miss at the time and witnessed many of these events--provides an engaging narrative of the tumultuous period surrounding Meredith's arrival at the Uni |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Meredith, James, 1933-
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Meredith, James, 1933- |
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University of Mississippi -- History
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University of Mississippi |
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College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History
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Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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Civil rights
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College integration
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Mississippi -- Oxford
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009004339 |
| ISBN |
0199701539 |
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9780199701537 |
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