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Author McGee, Meredith C.

Title James Meredith : warrior and the America that created him / Meredith Coleman McGee
Published Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1: Family Roots of a Warrior; 2: Path of a Warrior; 3: Public Education in America; 4: Returning to Mississippi from Active Duty; 5: Breaking Jim Crow Barriers; 6: Crushing Southern Forces; 7: Second Reconstruction Stories; 8: Fruits of Change; 9: The Living Legend, 1966-2012; 10: America's Economic Landscape in the Twenty-First Century; 11: Closing the Economic Disparities in the Twenty-First Century; Appendix: Family Tree of James Howard Meredith; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary "This book provides an honest look at the life and times of Civil Rights icon James Howard Meredith within the context of the America that created him and his generation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Meredith, James, 1933-
SUBJECT Meredith, James, 1933- fast
Subject University of Mississippi -- Students -- Biography
University of Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT University of Mississippi fast
Subject African American college students -- Mississippi -- Biography
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
EDUCATION -- Higher.
African American college students
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Students
Biography: historical, political & military.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject Mississippi
Southern States
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012044719
ISBN 9780313397400
0313397406
9798216105930
9789798216107
9798216105