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	James Meredith
		James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on 25th June, 1933.
		Meredith's allegations that he been denied admission because of his colour was rejected by the district court.
		Meredith's admission to the University of Mississippi was opposed by state officials and students and the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, decided to send federal marshals to protect Meredith from threats of being lynched.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmeredith.htm (529 words)

	James Meredith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure, although he vocally prefers not to be regarded as such.
		Meredith made several attempts to be elected to Congress as a Republican.
		James Meredith views himself as an individual American citizen who demanded and got the rights properly extended to any American, not as a participant in the US civil rights movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Meredith (626 words)

	African Americans - James Howard Meredith
		Meredith was shot on the march, and when he was physically able to resume the march, he did so, joined this time by the Rev.
		Merediths career has included a run for a congressional seat in 1972 and, in perhaps his most controversial move yet, a stint on the staff of arch-conservative Senator Jesse Helms beginning in 1989.
		On March 21, 1997, James Meredith presented his papersto the University of Mississippi where they are maintained by the Special Collections branch of the J.D. Williams Library.
	www.africanamericans.com /JamesMeredith.htm (580 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		He honored Meredith and others for their “noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer.” In 1966, King praised Meredith, once again, after he was wounded on a 220-mile personal journey to encourage African-American voter registration.
		In June 1933, Meredith was born the seventh of thirteen children in rural Kosciusko, Mississippi.
		Growing up in rural Mississippi was difficult for Meredith who moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to live with his aunt and attend public schools superior to those available in Kosciusko.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/meredith_james.htm (414 words)

	African American Journey: Meredith, James Howard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Meredith (1933-...) was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi.
		But Meredith succeeded in registering, and federal troops stayed on the campus to protect him until he graduated in 1963.
		James Meredith, center, is escorted in 1962 by federal officials as he makes his way to enroll in the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.
	www.worldbook.com /features/aajourney/html/bh100.html (139 words)

	Integration of Ole Miss
		Meredith "anticipated on encountering some type of difficulty" with his attempt to enter the University of Mississippi, also known as the Ole Miss, but 'difficulty' would not describe his journey.
		Meredith applied on January 31, enclosing a letter indicting he was an "American-Mississippi-Negro citizen." On February 4 the registrar sent Meredith a telegram stating that the Ole Miss "found [it] necessary to discontinue consideration of all applications for registration.
		Meredith had been consciously aware since he was fifteen that he was a Negro and "until I was fifteen I did not know that my group was supposed to be the inferior one.
	www.eotu.uiuc.edu /pedagogy/grogers/GRP/Meredith_1.htm (1430 words)

	African American Registry -- Your Source for African American History
		Meredith's allegation of denied admission because of his color was rejected.
		Meredith's admission to the University of Mississippi was opposed by state officials and students.
		Meredith's account of this experience at the university, Three Years in Mississippi was published in 1966.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2608/James_Meredith_a_differing_view_of_segregation (384 words)

	James (Howard) Meredith – FREE James (Howard) Meredith Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find James (Howard) Meredith ...
		James Meredith at Ole Miss: "victory over discrimination".
		James Hall presented his research on "Investigating the Effectiveness of the Bootstrap," at the Festival of Science at St...
		Continental Airlines attendant Meredith Hughes, 23, told police she was trying to coax Howard back to his seat because the seat-belt sign was on.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-371894.html (869 words)

	James Meredith 40th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On October 1, 1962, James H. Meredith was officially registered as a student at the University of Mississippi, marking the school's integration, following a night of rioting that claimed the lives of two students and injured 160 federal marshals.
		In 1962, 29-year-old James Meredith had served in the U.S. military for nine years and was accepted, on paper, as a student at the University of Mississippi.
		Meredith sued the state, and the 5th Judicial Circuit Court upheld his right to attend the school as he met academic and residency requirements for admission.
	www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/pr_meredith_forum.html (575 words)

	The James-Meredith Debate on Integration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Meredith: You've just returned from Washington to appear before the Judiciary Committee opposing the nomination of Clarence Thomas to be a Supreme Court Justice.
		James Meredith is the Negro who was forced by President John F. Kennedy into the white the University of Mississippi on October 1, 1961.
		Meredith, who has been termed "crazy" by leftist-columnist Bill Minor, has endorsed David Duke's campaign to be Governor of Louisiana, was once hired by segregationiost Senator Jesse Helms and endorsed Charlotte Reeves, who campaigned as a "white woman," in her efforts to unseat a Negro installed in the gerrymandered Mississippi Second Congressional District.
	www.nationalist.org /docs/ideology/meredith.html (4870 words)

	James Howard Meredith - Further Readings
		Meredith was born June 25, 1933, in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
		As Meredith's enrollment date, September 20, 1962, approached, Meredith received death threats; Barnett continued to promise to prevent his enrollment; and segregationists spread the word to be at "Ole Miss" to save it from integration.
		In September 2002, Meredith was a participant in a forum sponsored by the Kennedy Library to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his admission to the University of Mississippi.
	law.jrank.org /pages/8541/Meredith-James-Howard.html (1524 words)

	Jet: James Meredith returns to University of Mississippi for ceremonies marking 40th anniversary of school's ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Forty years after James Meredith was escorted through an angry mob of Whites to become the first Black to enroll at the University of Mississippi, he recently returned to the campus to be honored for his historic action.
		Meredith, 69, was saluted along with the soldiers and U.S. marshals who risked their lives four decades ago helping to end the riots at the college in Oxford, MS.
		Meredith said during the recent festivities that he didn't pay much attention to the riot that erupted around him four decades ago when he became the first Black man to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_18_102/ai_93307019 (493 words)

	CNN.com - Mississippi and Meredith remember - Sep. 29, 2002
		James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962.
		Meredith was the first fl student, but not the first fl person on campus.
		In 1966, Meredith was shot by a sniper during his solitary March Against Fear, a walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson to encourage fls to register to vote.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/US/South/09/30/meredith/index.html (1005 words)

	James Meredith@Everything2.com
		James Meredith, born in 1933 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, was a civil rights "activist", for want of better word.
		When Meredith made the trek to the Regent's Office in Jackson to re-register, governor Barnett personally blocked the doorway to the room, and read a pre-prepared statement about he was not breaking any laws in doing this, and how he was legally bound to protect Mississippi's "heritage".
		It was all logical and sensical to him, and he was even reluctant about suing the university for their actions, but he eventually did so because he did feel that it was unjust for them to impede the admission to which was perfectly and legally entitled.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1110579 (673 words)

	::James Meredith::
		James Meredith was to make his name in civil rights history by being the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi.
		Meredith filed a complaint with the courts that he had been rejected by the university simply because he was fl.
		After this, James Meredith continued his further education at the University of Ibadan (from 1964 to 1965) in Nigeria and at Columbia University (from 1966 to 1968).
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /james_meredith.htm (454 words)

	Social Education: James Meredith at Ole Miss: "victory over discrimination".@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ON OCTOBER 1, 1962, James Meredith attended his first classes at the University of Mississippi.
		Meredith was the first African American admitted to an all-white state university; and his admission came after 18 months of legal action, political posturing, and campus riots.
		The story of Meredith's bid for admission to "Ole Miss" is a case study of school integration, hut also a story of jurisdictional battles between state and federal governments ill the civil rights...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:124134315&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (205 words)

	Meredith, James (1933 - ) \| The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
		James Meredith is best known as the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi (Old Miss).
		In 1966 Meredith also began a one man protest against racial violence in Mississippi which he called a “Walk Against Fear.” The march originated in Memphis, Tennessee and was scheduled to end in Jackson, the state capital.
		James Meredith continued his education at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria (1964-65) and at Columbia University (1966-68) where he received an LL.B degree.
	www.blackpast.org /?q=aah/meredith-james-1933 (399 words)

	Wilmslow Express - ‘PC’ claptrap must fill Meredith with despair (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meredith graduated from Ole Miss in 1964 despite two years of isolation and intimidation only to be shot on a protest walk two years later.
		James Meredith survived and to this day displays the dignity and courage that enabled him to win his fight against state approved oppression.
		James Meredith detested the notion of ‘preference’ and ‘favour’ almost as much as he hated segregation.
	www.thewilmslowexpress.co.uk /barlowsbrief/s/206/206649_pc_claptrap_must_fill_meredith_with_despair_.html (523 words)

	American Experience \| Citizen King
		James Meredith becomes the first fl student to integrate the University of Mississippi, following a Supreme Court decision in his favor.
		James Meredith, who had integrated the University of Mississippi four years earlier, begins a 220-mile March Against Fear.
		Meredith survives the attack and later completes the march; Norvell is sentenced to five years in prison.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/mlk/maps/maps_pop.html (1115 words)

	Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps: Dr. James Meredith Speaks at Our Center
		James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on June 25, 1933.
		After a year of appeals, Meredith was victorious when the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court ruled the state could not deny admission to an academically qualified, taxpaying citizen.
		Meredith continued his education at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria (1964-65) and at Columbia University (1966-68).
	huberthhumphrey.jobcorps.gov /html/ctrhistory/hhabomer.html (490 words)

	James Meredith
		James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, MS, on June 25, 1933.
		Meredith filed a complaint with the district court in 1961, and a federal court ordered the university to desegregate and admit Meredith.
		Meredith published an account of his experience in a book entitled Three Years in Mississippi.
	www.megaone.com /chaosangel/me.html (174 words)

	Ø James Meredith Ø
		James Meredith University Of Mississippi It is especially clear in his account of the September 1962 violence in Oxford, Mississippi sparked by the Kennedy administration’s attempt to enforce a court order to register James Meredith—a fl US Air Force veteran—at Ole Miss Congrats on your win in Houston.
		James Meredith 1 I had already decided to include a JFK remark apparently made late on September 30, 1962 when federal troops failed to arrive in time to prevent a riot over the enrollment of James Meredith at the Oxford campus of the University of.
		James Meredith Motley was trying to destroy all segregation in that country, she was a guide of James Meredith, actually on 1962 he was the first fl student in the University of Misisipi and they woke up the interesting of segregation of south of.
	james-meredith-924.blogspot.com (2796 words)

	Bold Type: Essay by William Doyle
		Meredith also thought that the traditional discussion of civil rights was a total insult to the more fundamental question of whether or not he was an American citizen.
		Through a stubborn, methodical, year and a half long legal struggle, James Meredith forced the U.S. Justice Department and the Supreme Court to his side, and forced the Governor of Mississippi into a confrontation not with James Meredith but with the President of the United States and the world's most powerful military machine.
		Together with James Meredith and many unsung heroes of the Battle of Oxford, this country fought and won the last battle of the American Civil War on October 1, 1962.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1101/doyle/essay.html (1629 words)

	An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962... specs at MSN Shopping
		In 1961, a fl veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi -- and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America.
		Meredith's challenge ultimately triggered what "Time magazine called "the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil War," a crisis that on...
		William Doyle offers intimate portraits of the key players, from James Meredith to the segregationist Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, to President John F. Kennedy and the federal marshals and soldiers who risked their lives to uphold the Constitution.
	shopping.msn.com /specs/shp?itemId=2392037 (266 words)

	James Meredith - WeAreSC Forums
		On this day in 1966, James Meredith was shot on a civil rights march in Mississippi.
		James Meredith, the first fl man to brave the colour bar at the University of Mississippi, has been shot and wounded after entering Mississippi on a civil rights march.
		In 1961 Mr Meredith became an icon for the civil rights movement when he applied to the University of Mississippi and was rejected on racial grounds.
	wearesc.com /forums/showthread.php?p=437713 (467 words)

	News & Opinion: American Apartheid (Weekly Alibi . 10-05-98)
		On Sept. 30, 1962, James H. Meredith, a 29-year-old African American and Air Force veteran, moved into a University of Mississippi dormitory, planning the following day to be the first fl student to enroll at the 114-year-old school.
		Within a matter of days, two persons were dead, dozens injured and a military force of 15,000 had moved into town all due to the violent reaction white students and other Southern segregationists had to President Kennedy enforcing a court order that Ole Miss integrate its student body.
		Meredith was accompanied by five marshals wherever he went, including to his classes, where students left the seats surrounding him vacant, and to his dorm room, in "an otherwise unoccupied wing" of Baxter Hall.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-05-98/alibi_skeleton.html (406 words)

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