James Meredith getting ready for his March Against Fear, June 1966, Matt Herron, Take Stock On Sunday, June 5, 1966, James Meredith had just stepped off U.S. Highway 51 to begin a 220-mile trek through Mississippi. Mary June died in 1979. Ask almost any American born in the 1950s or earlier what television program ran in that timeslot on that network, and they’ll probably know the answer: The Ed Sullivan Show. The Highway Police and other forces were out in number, as the city and state had vowed to protect the marchers after the attacks in Philadelphia and Canton. James Meredith: First African American Student to Attend Ole Miss A federal court ordered “Ole Miss” to admit him, but when he tried to register on September 20, 1962, he found the entrance to the office blocked by Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. On the second day of the march Meredith was shot by an unknown gunman. Two days later, Meredith was escorted onto the Ole Miss campus by U.S.

James Meredith is a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. As a lifelong moderate Republican, Meredith felt he was fighting for the same constitutional rights of all American citizen, regardless of their race. He returned the next day and began classes. On June 5, 1966, equipped with only a helmet and walking stick, James Meredith began a 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi.Mr. The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. In late May 1918, the third German offensive of the year penetrated the Western Front to within 45 miles of Paris.
The nine-car train, filled with Eighteen-year-old Melissa Drexler gives birth to a baby boy in the bathroom stall at an Aberdeen Township banquet hall in New Jersey during her high school prom. However, when Meredith was shot and wounded by a white gunman on the second day of the journey leaders and members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( It was unusual because he was going to walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi all by himself. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, after the intervention of the federal government, an event that was a flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Three years later, Meredith returned to the public eye when he began his March Against Fear. William Quantrill, the man who gave Frank and Jesse James their first education in killing, dies from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Union soldiers in Kentucky. James Meredith begins the 220-mile Memphis to Jackson, MS March Against Fear on June 5, 1966. Known as the “March Against Fear,” Meredith had been walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, in an attempt to encourage voter registration by African Americans in the South.A former serviceman in the U.S. Air Force, Meredith applied and was accepted to the University of Mississippi in 1962, but his admission was revoked when the registrar learned of his race. The other major event in US history from June 6 I’d like to discuss today is the March Against Fear, a protest begun by James Meredith in Mississippi in 1966. The show’s creator, Darren Star, was best known at the time for producing the long-running Fox TV More than 500 passengers are killed when their train plunges into the Bagmati River in India on June 6, 1981.

He planned to rejoin the march, then withdrew for a time, as he had not intended it to be such a large media event. On September 10, 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of Mississippi had to admit African American students. For more than two decades, Sullivan’s variety show was the premiere On June 6, 1998, the cable network HBO airs the pilot episode of Sex and the City, a new comedy series chronicling the lives and loves of four single women living in New York City.