• “Which one of you’ll is Meredith?” Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett shouted on the steps of the University of Mississippi as a sea of federal marshals escorted James Meredith to become the first-ever Black student at the institution.
• A day before, citizens of the Magnolia State had rioted and, in the resulting clash with U.S. troops and National Guardsmen federalized by President John F. Kennedy, cars were burnt, troops were pelted with rocks, and two civilians (one a French journalist) were killed by gunfire.
• But Meredith made it inside Ole Miss and was registered as a student.

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