Civil Rights Commemoration Initiative Collection, 1982-2006.

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Civil Rights Commemoration Initiative Collection, 1982-2006.

Collection of flyers, notes, correspondence, newspaper articles, and plans for the Civil Rights Monument on the campus of the University of Mississippi.

5 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8101138

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...

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