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This Day in Legal History: The Integration of Ole Miss
On September 30, 1962, James Meredith, a Black Air Force veteran, was escorted onto the campus of the University of Mississippi by federal marshals to enroll under a federal court order. The university had rejected him for no reason other than his race. The Fifth Circuit ordered him admitted, and Justice Hugo Black refused to let that order be delayed. Mississippi’s governor, Ross Barnett, personally blocked Meredith’s registration anyway. The federal appeals court held him in contempt.
After nightfall on the 30th, a crowd of students…
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