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Nov 23, 2022

Alabama Prepares for University Desegregation

Nov. 23, 1962 - The prospective admission of a Negro to the University of Alabama has brought one of the South’s most extensive efforts...

Nov 20, 2022

MLK on Federal Housing Bill: “Constitutionally Sound, Morally Right”

Nov. 20, 1962 - Negro and Northern spokesmen said today that President Kennedy’s order barring discrimination in Federally aided housing...

Nov 20, 2022

Ole Miss Student Harassed After Eating with Meredith, Leaves Campus

Nov. 20, 1962 - A University of Mississippi freshman who ate with James H. Meredith (pictured right) last Thursday has left the campus....

Nov 18, 2022

MLK: FBI Sides with Segregationists

Nov. 18, 1962 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King charged today that FBI agents in Albany, Ga., side with the segregationists. For that...

Nov 10, 2022

Destroyed Negro Churches in Georgia Being Rebuilt

Nov. 10, 1962 - Approximately $60,000 has been raised to rebuild three Negro churches destroyed by fire in southwest Georgia last summer...

Nov 10, 2022

Meredith Struggling at Ole Miss

Nov. 10, 1962 - James Meredith said today he had fallen behind in his work at the University of Mississippi and would seek help from a...

Nov 3, 2022

Four Students Expelled from Ole Miss

Nov. 3, 1962 - The University of Mississippi expelled four students today on charges stemming from demonstrations against James H....

Oct 31, 2022

Faculty and Staff Averts Major Demonstration at University of Mississippi

Oct. 31, 1962 - A show of strength tonight by faculty members, state patrolmen, and military policemen at the University of Mississippi...

Oct 20, 2022

Dr. King Forming “Nonviolent Army” for Desegregation Push in Alabama

Oct. 20, 1962 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today that he planned to recruit a “nonviolent army” to fight segregation in Alabama, where...

Oct 15, 2022

A Slight Reduction of Tension at University of Mississippi

Oct. 15, 1962 - James H. Meredith began his third week of classes at the University of Mississippi today. For the first time, no jeers or...

Oct 12, 2022

Governor Barnett Continues to Plot Meredith’s Expulsion

Oct. 12, 1962 - Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett has suggested a plan that could lead to the expulsion of James H. Meredith (pictured...

Oct 8, 2022

Meredith Faces Continual Harassment at U. of Mississippi

Oct. 8, 1962 - At the University of Mississippi at Oxford this evening, a stone was hurled through the window of the campus cafeteria...

Oct 8, 2022

Katzenbach to Ole Miss Students: Meredith Will Stay

Oct. 8, 1962 - Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach (pictured left in May) told students at the University of Mississippi Law...

Oct 8, 2022

Two Marshals Blame Gov. Barnett for Mississippi Violence

Oct. 8, 1962 - Two Federal deputy marshals, just back from Oxford, Miss., said today that Governor Ross R. Barnett and the Mississippi...

Oct 6, 2022

U.S. Marshal, Injured in Mississippi Rioting, Blames Students

Oct. 6, 1962 - A United States deputy marshal, back home in San Francisco from the University of Mississippi, placed major blame for the...

Oct 4, 2022

Meredith Faces Hostility on Mississippi Campus

Oct. 4, 1962 - Twenty-nine-year-old Negro Air Force veteran James H. Meredith went to classes today at the University of Mississippi at...

Oct 4, 2022

Rioters Threw Acid at U.S. Marshals in Mississippi

Oct. 4, 1962 - The number of injuries inflicted by a howling mob of 2,500 that laid siege to U.S. marshals at the University of...

Oct 2, 2022

Castro Approves of U.S. Federal Action in Mississippi

Oct. 2, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro (pictured with Black Muslim spokesman Malcolm X in 1960) voiced his approval today of the United...

Oct 2, 2022

Meredith: Why Are Students Mad At Me?

Oct. 2, 1962 - James H. Meredith (pictured) turned today to the delicate and perhaps impossible task of gaining personal acceptance on...

Oct 2, 2022

Gov. Rockefeller Calls Mississippi Rioting “Deplorable”

Oct. 2, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (pictured) termed the Mississippi situation “deplorable” today. He said it was “sad”...