UPI12y
Ole Miss Riot
The story of Oxford began early in 1962. James Meredith ... the campus like a wild storm on a western prairie. Ole Miss erupted in riot. Mass Federal Marshalls struggled to bring the riots ...
The Harvard Crimson6y
Ole Miss Begins Its Slow Slide Backwards Into the Security of the Comfortable Past
OXFORD, MISS.--Bullet holes still mar the tall Ionic columns in front of the Lyceum building at Ole Miss. The six white pillars have been repainted since the 1962 riot, but many of the scars are ...
Tulsa World19d
Berry Tramel's Oxford travelblog: Ole Miss is not the same place it once was
Oh, Ole Miss isn’t Alabama or Georgia or Louisiana ... and as the headquarters for federal agents during the Ole Miss riot of 1962, which was ignited by the admission of James Meredith, the ...
Moviefone16d
Ghosts of Ole Miss (2012)
In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil ... the first African-American to attend class at the University of Mississippi, the campus erupted into a night of rioting between ...