The price of defiance : James Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss
Record details
- ISBN: 1469605066
- ISBN: 9781469605067
- ISBN: 0807895598
- ISBN: 9780807895597
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (560 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
remote - Publisher: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-541) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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." |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Awards Note: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 2010 |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |