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The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [ 1] was a violent disturbance that occurred at the University of Mississippi —commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as Segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith.
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement). [1]
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi. After a decade as a civil rights lawyer, Bell moved into ...
When the University of Mississippi was ordered by a federal court to admit Black students in 1962, 2,000 white people rioted against the arrival of the new student, James Meredith.
In 1885, the University of Mississippi became the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member, Sarah McGehee Isom. [14] [3] Nearly 100 years later, the Sarah Isom Center for Women's Studies was established in her honor. [3] The University of Mississippi was the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member ...
July 9, 2024 at 12:20 PM. NEW YORK (AP) — New York University has settled a lawsuit filed last November by three Jewish students who said they had been subjected to “pervasive acts of hatred ...
Referring to Black people as monkeys is a known racist trope dating back hundreds of years and used to justify slavery and Jim Crow law. “It was easily 10-1 counter-protesters to protesters ...
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university in University, Mississippi, with a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's second largest by enrollment. [4] The Mississippi Legislature chartered the university on February 24, 1848, and it admitted its first 80 ...