December 13, 2015

Analysis: Book shows angles of Miss. civil rights resistance

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - When James Meredith challenged Mississippi's entrenched system of white supremacy in 1962, Gov. Ross Barnett had a plan to stop the black military veteran from integrating the state's flagship university.

Days before Meredith was set to enroll, under a hard-won federal court order, as the first ...

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