The battle of Ole Miss : civil rights v. states' rights /
James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Critical historical encounters.
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