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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]
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [2] was a race riot 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. [3]
By 1968, Ole Miss had around 100 African American students, [55] and by the 2019–2020 academic year, African Americans constituted 12.5 percent of the student body. [56] In 1972, Ole Miss purchased Rowan Oak, the former home of Nobel Prize–winning writer William Faulkner. [57] [58] The building has been preserved as it was at Faulkner's ...
Approximately 50-60 protestors gathered to protest Israeli military responses in Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel on the Quad of the Ole Miss campus Thursday afternoon.
Herrington was a 22-year-old Ole Miss graduate from Grenada at the time of the alleged offense. In October, a judge declared Lee legally dead , but the whereabouts of Lee’s body is still unknown.
Lawyers in the case of a Mississippi man who alleged murdered Ole Miss student Jimmie Jay Lee painted two opposing pictures of the accused man. ... “July 8, 2022, tragically while also the day ...
The University of Mississippi was the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member: Sarah McGehee Isom in 1885. The nickname "Ole Miss" dates to 1897, when the student yearbook was first published. A contest was held to solicit suggestions for a yearbook title from the student body, and Elma Meek submitted the winning entry.
Lee, 20, of Jackson, Mississippi, was a gay man well known in the LGBTQ+ community at Ole Miss and in Oxford, where the university is located and Herrington's trial is being held. Lee's body has never been found, but a judge has declared him dead. Herrington maintains his own innocence.