In the midst of the burgeoning violence, community activists decided that the only way to affect change in the most oppressive state in the country would be through the voting system. Office during a youth day at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. In the nearby state of Alabama, four little girls were murdered when racists bombed the Birmingham State leader Medgar Evers, who had been instrumental in collecting evidence during the Emmett Till case, was executed in front of his Jackson, Mississippi, home by a white supremacist connected to the Ku Klux Klan. In June of 1963, Mississippi asserted its rightful place as the most racist state with particular vigor. Yet, despite the victory at the University of Mississippi, the violence in the state continued unabated. Source: Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library, Department of Archives and Manuscripts. Despite personal abuse and racist intimidation, Meredith completed his studies at the University, successfully graduating in 1963. By the end of the rioting, two people had been killed and hundreds were injured.
President Kennedy was forced to station federal troops at the campus as white rioters destroyed automobiles and campus property. Marshals were deployed to escort him to class after the governor of Mississippi personally attempted to block his entry. Supreme Court ruled in Meredith's favor, ordering that he be admitted to the University, and Officials rejected Meredith's application, and a suit was filed in federal court on his behalf. The state's segregationist policies had been decisively challenged, however, when James Howard Meredith, a 28-year-old African American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961. After the brutal lynching of Emmett Till in 1955, civil rights leaders focused their attention to the atrocities committed in the name of the law in Mississippi. Indeed, as a result of state's rights, Jim Crow continued to be maintained even as the Supreme Court began breaking down the legal barriers of segregation.
Almost 600 people had been lynched between the end of the Reconstruction era and 1968. The state had the highest lynching rate in the country. The Board of Education, schools still remained segregated. Theįounded in Mississippi, had over 10,000 members who were so successful in their actions that 10 years after Brown v. With a huge Ku Klux Klan membership and White Citizen's Council chapters (WCCs) that were tied to lawyers, doctors, judges, and politicians, violence was not just a threat it was an everyday reality. The greatest resistance to the dismantling of legal racial segregation occurred in Mississippi.
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