James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story

by Gene Roberts and Henry T. Gallagher

In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of three thousand whites from across the South and all but officially stoked by the state's segregationist authorities. Historians have called the Oxford riot nothing less than an insurrection and the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617036536
• ISBN13: 9781617036538
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"