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• 1933 Jun 25, 1933 - James Meredith was born on June 25, 1933, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Meredith was one of 10 children... ･ After being rejected twice from the University of Mississippi, Meredith filed a complaint with the district... ...

• 1961 Jan 1961 - In January 1961, James Meredith quietly applied for admission to the University of Mississippi in Oxford. (He later stated that he had been inspired to apply by Kennedy's inaugural address.) A twenty-eight-year-old air force veteran, Meredith was transferring ...In January 1961, James Meredith quietly applied for admission to the University of Mississippi in Oxford. (He later stated that he had been inspired to apply by Kennedy's inaugural address.) A twenty-eight-year-old air force veteran, Meredith was transferring to all-white Ole Miss from all-black Jackson State. ing. But Mississippi governor Ross Barnett claimed he would rather go to jail than let "that boy," backed by the "Communist" NAACP, get into Ole Miss.

• 1962 Sep 21, 1962 - THE old man paused a moment to consider the question about his 29-yearold son and then spoke, with a note of pride: encourages nun he wants the higher education that they don't _ have here for the colored people.'' This was Moses ( Cap) Mer edith, a 71-year old Negro farmer, ...

• Sep 29, 1962 - In the severe old Post Office building, is verdant Lafayette Square. And right in the middle of the square,' standing tall among the magnolias, is a statue of Henry Clay the Great— Compromiser. It should be noted, however, that he had his back toward courtroom. Meredith, a slight man ...

• Oct 3, 1962 - Miss. — — James H Meredith faced his third day of (-lassos al University of Mississippi today, appar ently prepared to endure a strange and lonely lift until he completes his education here— Perhaps In two years or slightly less time. He Is the first Negro ever knowingly to enrolled in ...

• Oct 20, 1962 - court has thrown a legal cloak around Negro James Meredith to protect him from any official interference or harass ment during his studies at the University of Mississippi. A preliminary injunction issued Friday by the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gave strict or ders to the state of ...

• Nov 4, 1962 - I can't live in Mississippi," writes James Meredith, "I will leave the country." In this week's Saturday Evening Post, Meredith tells the story behind his role in the Mississippi crisis. You'll learn how he became "strong on the race issue" when still a youngster. ...

• Dec 25, 1962 - James Meredith, first Negro to enter the University of Mis- sissippi, reported in Chicago yesterday that he had been denied federal help in guarding his ... Meredith is the Negro whose entry into the university led to rioting against federal mar- and army troops who guarded him. ...

• 1963 Aug 19, 1963 - OXFORD, Miss. — The white people stared stiffly ahead, without expression. The few Negroes in the audience watched somberly from small, self-conscious islands. Except for a few stolen glances, neither group seemed to look at the other. Together, under the tall oaks, they sat in awkward ...

• 1966 Jun 8, 1966 - James Meredith began his walk through the rural heart of Mississippi on Sunday afternoon as a pilgrim marching against fear. ... Little more than 24 hours later Meredith lay wounded on a country road, his body bloodied by 75 shotgun pellets fired from cowardly ambush. ...