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The price of defiance : James Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss / Charles W. Eagles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eagles, Charles W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Mississippi--History.
- University of Mississippi.
- Meredith, James, 1933-.
- Meredith, James.
- College integration--Mississippi--Oxford--History.
- College integration.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights--Mississippi--Oxford--History.
- Civil rights.
- History.
- Mississippi--Oxford.
- Physical Description:
- 560 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Ole Miss and Race
- 1 "Welcome to Ole Miss, Where Everybody Speaks" 9
- 2 Following Community Mores: / J. D. Williams, Postwar Race Relations 26
- 3 "I Love Colored People, but in Their Place": Segregation at Ole Miss 41
- 4 "Negroes Who Didn't Know Their Place": Early Attempts at Integration 60
- 5 Integration and Insanity: Clennon King in 1958 80
- 6 They Will "Want to Dance with Our Girls": Unwritten Rules and Rebel Athletics 99
- 7 "Mississippi Madness": Will Campbell and Religious Emphasis Week 117
- 8 Nemesis of the Southern Way of Life / Jim Silver 139
- 9 "On the Brink of Disaster": Defending States' Rights, Anticommunism, and Segregation 160
- 10 "Thought Control": The Editor and the Professor 181
- Part 2 James Meredith
- 11 The Making of a Militant Conservative / J. H. Meredith 201
- 12 "I Regret to Inform You. . ." 221
- 13 Meredith v. Fair I: "Delay, Harassment, and Masterly Inactivity" 239
- 14 Meredith v. Fair II: A "Legal Jungle" 261
- 15 Negotiations: A Game of Checkers 277
- Part 3 A Fortress of Segregation Falls
- 16 Initial Skirmishing: September 20-25, 1962 299
- 17 Confrontations: September 26-30, 1962 319
- 18 "A Maelstrom of Savagery and Hatred": The Riot 340
- 19 "Prisoner of War in a Strange Struggle": Meredith at Ole Miss 371
- 20 J. H. Meredith, Class of'63 397
- 21 "The Fight for Men's Minds" 425.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807832738
- 0807832731
- OCLC:
- 273818659
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