Reverend Wofford K. Smith Collection, 1962-1964.

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Reverend Wofford K. Smith Collection, 1962-1964.

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The Reverend Wofford K. Smith Collection contains mainly correspondence, ephemera and newspaper clippings relating to the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi and contemporaneous activities of the University of Mississippi's Episcopal Chaplain. These materials provide details of integrationist attitudes and support.

4 boxes (1.668 linear ft.)

University of Mississippi

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SNAC Resource ID: 7519440

University of Mississippi

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Meredith, James Howard, 1933-

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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. In 1966, Meredith planned a solo 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. On the second day, he was shot by a white gunman and suffered numerous wound...

University of Mississippi

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Smith, Wofford K., 1927-1990.

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The Reverend Wofford K. Smith was the University of Mississippi Episcopal Chaplain during the integration crisis in 1962. He was a supporter of integration. Rev. Smith left the University of Mississippi for the University of Maryland, retiring as chaplain emeritus in 1986. Smith died 10 August 1990. From the description of Reverend Wofford K. Smith Collection, 1962-1964. (University of Mississippi). WorldCat record id: 432051482 ...