Ole Miss enrolls Meredith after riots kill 2, injure 75 By AL KUETTNER OXFORD, Miss., Oct. 1, 1962 (UPI) -- Negro James Meredith registered ... crisis since the Civil War.There were banner ...

James Meredith ... to control it,” Meredith told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday after an event honoring him at the Mississippi Capitol. Meredith is a civil rights icon who has ...

Meredith's name is breaking news again as he announces he may not stay at the university. Meredith is being relentlessly harassed and more soldiers are now on campus than students. The stage is set ...

(AP) — A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of James Meredith ... s something special.” Meredith, who resists being called a civil rights leader, now lives in ...