Three Years in Mississippi
Nonfiction work
By: James Meredith
Date: 1966
Source: Meredith, James. Three Years in Mississippi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966, 209–214.
About the Author: James Meredith (1933–), the grandson of a slave, grew up on an eighty-four-acre farm near Kosciusko, Mississippi. From 1951 to 1960, he served in the U.S. Air Force and rose to the rank of staff sergeant. In 1961, he graduated from the all-black Jackson State University. In 1962, Meredith, feeling a personal responsibility to overturn White Supremacy, became the first African American to enroll at the 114-year old, all-white University of Mississippi.
Introduction
In the wake of the Civil War (1861–1865), Radical Republicans abolished slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment and advanced the ideal of racial equality in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. For much of the next...
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