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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]
Ole Miss also owns University-Oxford Airport, which is located north of the main campus. [78] North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a Japanese weekend school, is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus. [93] [94] It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi is paying tribute to 89-year-old James Meredith 60 years after white protesters The post Ole Miss honors James Meredith 60 years after ...
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈfɔːknər /; [1][2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer, whose novels and short stories were set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of ...
Ghosts of Mississippi. Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. James ...
In 2002, the university marked the 40th anniversary of integration with a yearlong series of events titled "Open Doors: Building on 40 Years of Opportunity in Higher Education." These included an oral history of Ole Miss, various symposiums, the April unveiling of a $130,000 memorial, and a reunion of federal marshals who had served at the campus.
His 2010 article Ghosts of Mississippi inspired the 2012 ESPN 30 for 30 series documentary film The Ghosts of Ole Miss (which Thompson narrated), [2] about the 1962 football team's perfect season and concurrent violence and rioting over integration of the segregated university by James Meredith. [3]