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History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

 

James Meredith was attending an African American university called Jackson State College from 1960 to 1962. For this period, he applied time after time to the University of Mississippi short of victory. "Meredith attempted to register four times without success" (Civil Rights Movement). He was a native Mississippian; he was born in Kosciusko in 1933. He went to school his whole life in the state of Mississippi excluding one concluding year of high school in Florida and Meredith also enlisted nine years in the U.S. Air Force. After his application was refused several times, it "prompted the would-be student to write a letter to Thurgood Marshall, then head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense Fund" (U.S. Marshals Service). Marshall and his association passionately backed up Meredith. In 1961, with the support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples, James Meredith filed a lawsuit against Ole Miss, asserting racial discrimination. The lawsuit was ultimately resolved on appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Meredith's favor in September 1962. William Doyle indicated in his book, "An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi," that the NAACP's support was a crucial element in Meredith's ultimate victory. "Doyle also noted that two other factors were equally important: John F. Kennedy, seen as the first president to support civil rights, took office in January 1961; and the Brown ruling was still the official law of the land" (U.S. Marshals Service).
             Governor Ross Barnett and other state executives pursued disregarding the Supreme Court verdict, inciting a constitutional calamity amongst the federal government and the state of Mississippi. "Long telephone conversations between the president, the attorney general, and Governor Ross Barnett failed to produce a solution" (Civil Rights Movement).


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