December 14, 2015
History professor Robert Luckett has written a new book, "Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma," which explains former Gov. Ross Barnett's plan to arrest James Meredith to stop his enrollment at the University of Mississippi and Patterson's response. Photo courtesy JSU Media Relations
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Analysis: Book Shows Angles of Miss. Civil Rights Resistance
When James Meredith challenged Mississippi's entrenched system of white supremacy in 1962, Gov. Ross Barnett had a plan to stop the black military veteran from integrating the state's flagship university.
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