University+of+Mississippi+riot+(James+Meredith)

=University of Mississippi Riot (James Meredith)=
 * kipedia. (2010). //Human Rights.// Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights. Last accessed 9 June 2010. **

The Mississippi Riot was a show of discrimination and racism against "negros". James Meredith, after completing a course at a community college, decided to further extend his education by attending Ole Mis. He was denied due to reasoning of not having acquired a university alumni recommendation, and also as his previous college was not a member of the Southern Association of Secondary Schools. The underlying reason was that the university didn't want him to attend due to his race.

James Meredith filed a lawsuit against the Univesity on May 31, 1961, and eventually won his case with the help of the NAACP legal defense and the Educational, complaining that the only reason why James Meredith couldn't get into the university was because of his skin colour. The lawsuit was originally rejected on the basis that there was no evidence. In 1962, he was given the right to enter the university as he won his appeal, and the judge ordered that he was to be allowed to attend the university. This led to mass protests, hatred and discrimination from the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett. The governor appealed to the Mississippi public to uphold the segregation laws regardless of the court's decision, and refused Meredith twice when he tried to register to attend the university. To help prevent a riot, President J.F. Kennedy employed federal troops and the Mississippi National Guard on campus. When Meredith finally entered the school over a thousand students chanted racist slogans and became increasingly violent, throwing rocks and bottles at his defenders. The state troopers fled leaving 320 men to defend themselves against the mob, and in the process two people were killed and half were injured. Meredith successfully attended but was severely discriminated against and few inside the school were kind to him.

Meredith is an American civil rights movement figure and was the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi.

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