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Though Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence wrote that the United States would be founded on the principles that all men were created equal, nearly 200 years would pass before the principle was put into any real practice. Although the end of the Civil War opened the door for the passage of the Civil War Amendments, which abolished slavery, and, in theory, granted the descendants of both free and enslaved blacks the same rights as those enjoyed by whites, those rights were not respected or practiced during the century following the war. Most aspects of life, including schooling, remained segregated on every level, especially throughout the Jim Crow South, and the years following the desegregation triumph of Brown v. Board of the Education in 1954 saw little done to accomplish the instructions given by the Supreme Court, especially at the university level. Enter James Meredith, a young man of 28 who decided to make it his life's mission to change that situation. In doing so, he took aim at the very heart of Southern segregation: the University of Mississippi. He might have chosen any school, but Meredith had a special interest in Mississippi, as it was his native state; he had grown up near his hometown's current mayor and likely had something of a personal score to settle, as well as a political one. He applied to the university in 1961 not only to get an education but to give one in an effort to teach the white people of Mississippi and the nation that they could no longer exclude their black neighbors from their lives. Of course, he also aimed to empower black citizens and demonstrate that they were indeed citizens with the same rights and responsibilities as anyone else. Civil Rights Movement Timeline - Infoplease Key moments in the civil rights movement including Supreme Court cases legislation and more The Integration of Ole Miss - Black History - HISTORYcom Article Details: The Integration of Ole Miss Author Historycom Staff Website Name Historycom Year Published 2010 Title The Integration of Ole Miss URL James Meredith shot - Jun 06 1966 - HISTORYcom James H Meredith who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil A History of Racial Injustice - Equal Justice Initiative May 10th 1740 South Carolina Passes Negro Act of 1740 On May 10 1740 the South Carolina Assembly enacted the Bill for the better ordering and governing of University of Mississippi - Wikipedia The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is an American public research university located in Oxford Mississippi It is the state of The Supreme Court Expanding Civil Rights Biographies Portrait of Thurgood Marshall Reproduction courtesy of the Supreme Court Historical Society Intro Afro-American Studies 265 The fight for civil rights is a struggle for the democratic rights guaranteed by the US Constitution Civil rights are politically defined freedoms James Meredith - Wikipedia Born: James Howard Meredith June 25 1933 (age 83) Kosciusko Mississippi: Education: University of Mississippi; Columbia Law School LLB Known for Browse By Author: M - Project Gutenberg Maag Carl R Project Trinity 1945-1946 (English) (as Author) Maartens Maarten My Lady Nobody A Novel (English) (as Author) Mabey Charles Rendell 1877- Segregation Now -- How 'Separate and Equal - The Atlantic Segregation Now Sixty years after Brown v Board of Education the schools in Tuscaloosa Alabama show how separate and unequal education is coming back
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