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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 28, 2022

Attorney General Links Cuban Crisis to Racial Turmoil

Oct. 28, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said tonight that the tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Cuba were linked...

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 11, 2022

Africans Impressed by Kennedy’s Handling of Mississippi Crisis

Oct. 11, 1962 - The Federal Government’s firm handling of the Mississippi crisis has made a favorable impression in Africa. At the height...

Oct 9, 2022

Robert Kennedy Extols Government’s Handling of Mississippi Crisis

Oct. 9, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said in a broadcast to foreign countries today that “what the world saw in Mississippi...

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

Kennedy: Would Have Taken Years to Recover if Meredith Had Been Killed or Injured

Oct. 4, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that it would have taken the U.S. and Mississippi years to recover if James H. Meredith had...

Oct 4, 2022

Ole Miss Football Game Transferred to Jackson for Fear of More Rioting

Oct. 4, 1962 - Fears of further violence over a Negro’s admission to the University of Mississippi led Federal officials today to...

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”...

Oct 1, 2022

Walker Arrested in Mississippi for Sedition and Insurrection

Oct. 1, 1962 - Former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker was arrested today on four charges, including sedition and insurrection, for his role in...

Oct 1, 2022

Meredith Harassed as He Registers for Classes at Campus Under Military Occupation

Oct. 1, 1962 - The University of Mississippi campus was under military occupation today as James H. Meredith, its first Negro student,...