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United Press International [James Meredith photographs, 1962-1966][Decimalized .01-.05]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09824 Author/Creator: United Press International Place Written: Oxford, Mississippi Type: Header Record Date: 1962-1966 Pagination: 5 items Order a Copy

Collection of five photographs related to James Meredith taken by UPI telephoto dated 1962-1966. Pertains to Meredith's enrollment as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, his campus life and civil rights activism. One photograph in the collection shows head wounds from a shotgun he received during a protest.

Meredith, James, 1933-

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