Margaret Countiss Harbison Collection, 1958-1964.

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Margaret Countiss Harbison Collection, 1958-1964.

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Collection contains exploded tear gas canister from the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Also contains newspapers pertaining to the Civil Rights Movement and football memorabilia.

2 boxes (.417 linear ft.)

University of Mississippi

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SNAC Resource ID: 7523474

University of Mississippi

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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...

Harbison, Margaret Countiss.

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