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):

Civil rights--Mississippi--Oxford--History.

Civil rights.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

College integration--Mississippi--Oxford--History.

College integration.

University of Mississippi--History.

University of Mississippi.

Meredith, James, 1933-.

Meredith, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. This book shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law. Ultimately, the price of such behaviour - the price of defiance - was not only the murderous riot that rocked the nation and almost closed the university but also the nation's enduring scorn for Ole Miss and Mississippi.

Contents:

Ole Miss and race. "Welcome to Ole Miss, where everybody speaks" ; Following community mores : J.D. Williams and postwar race relations ; "I love colored people, but in their place" : segregation at Ole Miss ; "Negroes who didn't know their place" : early attempts at integration ; They will "want to dance with our girls" : unwritten rules and rebel athletics ; "Mississippi madness" : Will Campbell and Religious Emphasis Week ; Nemesis of the Southern way of life : Jim Silver ; "On the brink of disaster" : defending States' rights, anticommunism, and segregation ; "Thought control" : the editor and the professor

James Meredith. The making of a militant conservative : J.H. Meredith ; "I regret to inform you

" ; Meredith v. Fair I : "Delay, harassment, and masterly inactivity" ; Meredith v. Fair II : a "legal jungle" ; Negotiations : a game of checkers

A fortress of segregation falls. Initial skirmishing : September 20-25, 1962 ; Confrontations : September 26-30, 1962 ; "A maelstrom of savagery and hatred" : the riot ; "Prisoner of war in a strange struggle" : Meredith at Ole Miss ; J.H. Meredith, Class of '63 ; "The fight for men's minds."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-541) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908831-6-2

1-4696-0506-6

0-8078-9559-8

OCLC:

794003562