Meredith’s Enrollment Integrates the University of Mississippi
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Teaching, Teachers, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Human Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History
- Geographical Location: Mississippi
- Date: October 1, 1962
Article abstract: Following a fifteen-month legal battle, James Meredith, under the protection of federal troops, became the first black to attend a white university in Mississippi.
Summary of Event
Desegregation became a national imperative after the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. In its decision, the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s requirement of “equal protection of the law.” The court’s decision, however, had an immediate effect only...
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