Ole Miss riot of 1962
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ole-miss-riot-of-1962-189-7091500
title:
Ole Miss riot of 1962
text:
The Ole Miss riot of 1962, also known as the Battle of Oxford, was a violent disturbance that occurred at the University of Mississippi—commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as Segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith. President John F. Kennedy eventually quelled the riot by mobilizing more than 30,000 troops, the most for a single disturbance in United States history. In the wake of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision Brown v.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Civil unrest in Mississippi
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962
date created:
2009-06-28T04:10:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:49:55Z
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