- Description
- 1 online resource (560 p., [13] p. of plates) : ill., map.
- Uniform Title
- Price of defiance (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Price of defiance (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-541) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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."
- LCCN
- 2008047142
- OCLC
- ssj0000692473
- Author
Eagles, Charles W.
- Title
The price of defiance [electronic resource] : James Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss / Charles W. Eagles.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-541) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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