Section 1 The Meredith crisis James Meredith integrated the university of Mississippi October 1962 Federal government enforces Supreme Court order using 30000 troops after State Resist the integration of Public schools ID: 806452
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Slide1
Mississippi and the Meredith crisis
Section 1
Slide2The Meredith crisis
James Meredith integrated the university of Mississippi October 1962.
Federal government enforces Supreme Court order using 30,000 troops after State Resist the integration of Public schools.
The integration became a fundamental issue of federal authority versus state sovereignty
Slide3Origins of the Civil rights
JULY 2, 1946 Medgar evers and a group of WwII veterans went to the newton county courthouse as the first blacks to register to vote in MS after reconstruction but were turned away by a white mob.
1948 Pulitzer Prize winner
Hodding
Carter delivered a commencement speech at Alcorn A&M on educational equality.
Slide4Administration of Ross R. Barnett
1960-1964 Ross R. Barnett governor promised to keep MS schools segregated and maintain Mississippi’s “way of life”
Under Barnett’s administration Mississippi adopted two constitutional amendments.
Abolish public school to stop integration
Voters shall be of good moral character
Slide5Presidential Election of 1960
John f. Kennedy supported civil rights and racial equality generating optimism among Mississippi blacks.
Slide6Early Attempts to integrate colleges & universities
1944 Harry S. murphy
was stationed at Ole Miss under the Navy v-12 program during WWII. He was light skinned and his records identified him as Caucasian.
1953 Charles
Dubra
applied to ole miss law school one year before the
brown
decision.
Dubra
wanted no publicity and offered to live of campus. Dean Farley presented his application to college board and they rejected his application.
1954 Medgar evers
applied to ole miss after the
brown
decision. He was rejected for lack of recommendation letters. He was rejected again after he submitted the letters. Evers accepted a state field secretary position in the NAACP instead of pursuing Ole Miss law school.
1958 Clennon King
a professor at alcorn
a&m
applied in person at ole miss. When King arrived to register, he was placed in a room and left. After shouting for help he was committed to Whitfield state mental hospital. After being released he left the state.
1959 Clyde Kennard
applied to the university of southern Mississippi. 1960 He was sentenced to seven years in parchman prison where he died of stomach cancer 1963. His conviction was overturned in May 2006.
Slide7The Meredith Crisis
October 1, 1962 James Meredith enrolls in the university of Mississippi
June 6, 1966 - James Meredith Shot During "March Against Fear
“
The legacy of
james Meredith McKennley Wilson's James Meredith Storyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqFcVNKr3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqFcVNKr3CUCU
1961 James Meredith and several black
Tougaloo
students were arrested for attempting to use the Jackson public library.
James Meredith filed suit in federal court seeking admission to the University of Mississippi.
1962 Supreme Court ordered ole miss to admit James Meredith. He graduated in 1963
Slide8The Assassination of Medgar
evers
Section 2
Slide9Medgar Evers Assassination and Arrest
May 20, 1963 Medgar announce in a televised speech that the NAACP would use every legal means available to bring social justice in Mississippi including sit-ins and boycotts.
June 12, 1963 Byron De La Beckwith assassinated Medgar Evers in the driveway of his Jackson, MS home
June 22,1963 Beckwith is arrest at his home. A hinds county grand jury indicts him fro the murder of Medgar
evers
.
Slide10The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson
The Clarion-Ledger was hostile to political, social and racial changes in Mississippi.
Prior to Beckwith’s arrest the Clarion insinuated the civil rights leaders killed Evers to rekindle unrest.
After Beckwith’s arrest the Clarion headline read “Californian is Charged”
2002-2011 African American Ronnie Agnew and Ole Miss graduate served as Executive-Editor of the Clarion-Ledger.
Slide11Byron De La Beckwith
Beckwith’s Racial Theories
1957 B
eckwith wrote a letter to the editor of a Jackson newspaper stating his belief in segregation.
1963 Beckwith wrote to a letter to the National Rifle Association stating that Mississippi residents will have to do a lot of shooting to protect wives, children, and themselves.
Beckwith’s First Two Trials
Feb. 7, 1964 The first trial ended with a hung jury.
April 17, 1964 The second trial ended with a hung jury.
The Conviction of Beckwith
January 1994 Beckwith was found guilty of the murder of Medgar Evers
He was sentenced to life in prison and died in 2001 at the University Hospital the same as Medgar Evers
Slide12Slide13Slide1414
People outside the home of
Medgar
Evers following his murder by a sniper
.
Slide15Medgar
Evers Funeral
Slide16Slide17Council of Federated Organizations (COFO
)
Slide18The Beginning of the end of Racial Segregation
Section 3
Slide19Administration of Paul B. Johnson Jr. 1964-1968
1963 Paul B. Johnson a Democrat won the election but the Republican
Rubel
Phillips received 138,515 indicating a larger number of Mississippi Republicans than believed.
During Johnson’s inaugural address he promised that hate, prejudice and ignorance would not lead Mississippi during his administration.
Under Johnson’s administration, nonagricultural employment exceeded agricultural employment for the first time in the state’s history.
Slide20Long Hot Summer of 1964
1964 Students came to Mississippi under the sponsorship of COFO, SCLC, SNCC, CORE during Freedom Summer to help inform and help blacks with voter registration.
1964 violence in MS includes 3 murders, 80 beatings, 35 shootings, 1,000 arrests, 35 churches burned, 31 homes & buildings bombed
Mississippi
COFO workers Michael
Schwerner
, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were murdered June 1964 by the KKK
The federal government filed charge against 18 suspects and 7 were found guilty.
Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion-Ledger uncovered evidence to help convict Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter with 60yrs.
Freedom
1964 Civil Rights leaders establish the Freedom Democratic Party
Party leaders of the Democratic party offer a compromise between the loyalist and the regulars.
Both sides decline and Fannie Lou Hamer states “We didn’t come all this way for no two seats
Summer
Slide21Freedom Summer 1964
Slide22Civil Rights Legislation
1964-1965
United States Congress passed several civil rights laws to stop discrimination in voting, housing, public places, and state parks.
Slide23The Firebombing of Vernon Dahmer’s Home
J
anuary 10, 1966 KKK firebombed Vernon Dahmer’s home killing him
Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers is tried 4 times ending in mistrials
Jerry Mitchell uncovers new evidence
1998 Bowers is found guilty and sentenced to life. He died 2006
Slide24Election of 1967
John Bell Williams -
elected Governor of Mississippi and ended the dual system of public school.
1967 –
22 blacks are elected into public office in Mississippi
Robert G Clark –
won the states legislature seat and influenced the Education Reform Act of 1982