Battle of OLE Miss : Civil Rights V. States' Rights

Frank Lambert
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780195380415
0-19-538041-X

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.

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wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government to send thousands of soldiers to restore the peace.