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 ...

The ideas also shifted the emphasis of civil rights campaigning away from the ... the idea of Black Power and its followers. In 1966, James Meredith planned a 220-mile March Against Fear across ...