Before the Meredith incident, Ole Miss was a typical Southern university. While almost every student, some more reluctant than other, admitted that he was there to get an education, few confined ...

Meredith, 91, wore a red Ole Miss baseball hat as he watched Friday’s ceremony from the front seat of a pickup truck owned by Kosciusko, a town of 6,800 that is also the birthplace of media ...

The riot, which broke out when Negro James Meredith enrolled in previously segregated Ole Miss, shook the college to its foundations. Mississippians suddenly had to get used to the idea of ...

Mississippi’s governor at the time, Ross Barnett, had stirred mobs into a frenzy by declaring that Ole Miss would not be integrated under his watch. Meredith was a 29-year-old Air Force veteran ...

I came upon a box containing two small notebooks used by the soldier tasked with guarding James Meredith, the first African-American student at Ole Miss. They were Nifty brand, cost a dime and ...

The story of Oxford began early in 1962. James Meredith, veteran, married, wanted to complete his education. The college of his choice was Ole Miss. Generations of Southern boys and girls had ...

Thanks to a determined group of 17 graduating seniors at Florida State University, James Howard Meredith is fully home now. It’s time. In cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Archives ...