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Butler, Carolyn Kleiner. “Down in Mississippi,” Smithsonian Magazine, February 2005, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/down-in-mississippi-85827990/.

Doyle, William. An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Eagles, Charles, W. The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Elliott, Debbie. “Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot,” NPR, October 1, 2012, https://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/161573289/integrating-ole-miss-a-transformative-deadly-riot.

Hobbs, Allyson, “The ‘white’ student who integrated Ole Miss,” CNN, February 5, 2014, https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/living/black-white-ole-miss-integration/index.html.

McGee, Meredith Coleman. James Meredith: Warrior and the America that Created Him. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013.

Meredith, James. A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America. New York: Atria Books, 2012.

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Elizabeth Brevard

By Elizabeth Brevard, Intern, Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery

By the fall of 1962, racial tension had exploded in the American South. Groups such as the Little Rock Nine and the Freedom Riders had exposed the violence spurred by the deep-seeded stigmas of many Americans and the need for change. James Howard Meredith had intently followed the escalated resistance and believed that it was the right time to move aggressively in what he considered a war against white supremacy.

Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on June 25, 1933. Unlike many African Americans in Mississippi at the time, his father, Moses, was an independent farmer and a registered voter. Moses, who was the son of a slave, fenced off their property and minimized the family’s interaction with outsiders. Meredith first experienced the humiliation of racial discrimination at age fifteen, on a return train to Mississippi after visiting family in the North. He remembered in 1962, “The train wasn’t segregated when we left Detroit, but when we got to Memphis the c

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James Meredith

American civil rights movement figure (born 1933)

For other people named James Meredith, see James Meredith (disambiguation).

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregatedUniversity of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement).^[1] Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi.^[2] His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans.^[2] The admission of Meredith ignited the Ole Miss riot of 1962 where Meredith's life was threatened and 31,000 American servicemen were required to quell the violence – the largest ever invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807.^[3]

In 1966, Meredith planned a solo