[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/f-Bco-DgGcI?list=PLcxospALM0Fq4ZRsj-kbOaDgBcAa4YFtj”] James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962. The change resulted in a riot on the Ole Miss campus that left two people dead.
James Meredith Recounts Integrating Ole Miss
The activist, author and first black graduate of the University of Mississippi remembers his integration of the school not as a struggle for civil rights but for citizenship. Meredith talks about the strength he got from his belief in God,…