Books+ Search Results
The price of defiance James Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss
Author
Title
The price of defiance [electronic resource] : James Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss / Charles W. Eagles.
ISBN
1469605066
9781469605067
0807832731 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807832738 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (560 p., [13] p. of plates :) ill., map ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive History Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-541) and index.
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."
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
