The Price of Defiance

James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss

Charles W. Eagles (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

584 Seiten

2009 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3273-8 (ISBN)

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James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. His arrival on campus wounded scores of US marshals and killed two civilians. This work shows that the eruption of violence resulted from the 'closed society's' long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law.

This title presents the effects of one man's confrontation with segregation. After fighting a protracted legal battle, James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The riot that followed his arrival on campus seriously wounded scores of U.S. marshals and killed two civilians, more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. To restore order, the Kennedy administration dispatched thousands of soldiers to Oxford. In ""The Price of Defiance"", Charles Eagles shows that the stunning eruption of violence resulted from the 'closed society's' long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law. Using many previously untapped sources, including FBI and U.S. marshal files, army and university records, and Meredith's personal papers, Eagles provides invaluable background for understanding the historic moment by demonstrating the university's - and Mississippi's - history of aggressive resistance to desegregation from the post-World War II years on, including the deliberate flouting of federal law. Ultimately, the price of such behavior - the price of defiance - was not only the murderous riot that rocked the nation and almost closed the university but also the nation's enduring scorn for Ole Miss and Mississippi. Eagles paints a remarkable portrait of Meredith himself by describing his unusual family background, his personal values, and his service in the U.S. Air Force, all of which prepared him for his experience at Ole Miss. Based on extraordinary research, Eagles vividly portrays the culture of segregation and the eventual desegregation of one of the last bastions of racial segregation, Ole Miss.

Charles W. Eagles is William F. Winter Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His books include Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and The Civil Rights Movement in America.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.8.2009
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8078-3273-1 / 0807832731
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-3273-8 / 9780807832738
Zustand	Neuware