James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot

Name: James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
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4778873James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riothttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/james-meredith-and-the-ole-miss-riot-9781496856067/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4375085/image.jpg?v=638449168839800000336466MXNUniversity Press of MississippiInStock/Ebooks/In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of three thousand whites from across the South and all but officially stoked by the states segregationist authorities. Historians have called the Oxford riot nothing less than an insurrection and the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. The escalating conflict prompted President John F. Kennedy to send twenty thousand regular army troops, in addition to federalized Mississippi National Guard soldiers, into the civil unrest (ten thousand into the town itself) to quell rioters and restore law and order.James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot is the memoir of one of the participants, a young army second lieutenant named Henry Gallagher, born and raised in Minnesota. His military police battalion from New Jersey deployed, without the benefit of riot-control practice or advance briefing, into a deadly civil rights confrontation. He was thereafter assigned as the officer-in-charge of Merediths security detail at a time when he faced very real threats to his life.Gallaghers first-person account considers the performance of his fellow soldiers before and after the riot. He writes of the behavior of the white students, some of them defiant, others perceiving a Communist-inspired Kennedy conspiracy in Merediths entry into Mississippis flagship university. The author depicts the student, Meredith, a man who at times seemed disconnected with the violent reality that swirled around him, and who even aspired to be freed of his protectors so that he could just be another Ole Miss student.James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot is both an invaluable perspective on a pivotal moment in American history and an in-depth look at a unique home front military action. From the vantage of the fiftieth anniversary of the riot, Henry T. Gallagher reveals the young man he was in the midst of one of historys most profound tests, a soldier from the Midwest encountering the powder keg of the Old South and its violent racial divisions....4568711James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot336466https://www.gandhi.com.mx/james-meredith-and-the-ole-miss-riot-9781496856067/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4375085/image.jpg?v=638449168839800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20129781496856067_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9781496856067_In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of three thousand whites from across the South and all but officially stoked by the states segregationist authorities. Historians have called the Oxford riot nothing less than an insurrection and the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. The escalating conflict prompted President John F. Kennedy to send twenty thousand regular army troops, in addition to federalized Mississippi National Guard soldiers, into the civil unrest (ten thousand into the town itself) to quell rioters and restore law and order.James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot is the memoir of one of the participants, a young army second lieutenant named Henry Gallagher, born and raised in Minnesota. His military police battalion from New Jersey deployed, without the benefit of riot-control practice or advance briefing, into a deadly civil rights confrontation. He was thereafter assigned as the officer-in-charge of Merediths security detail at a time when he faced very real threats to his life.Gallaghers first-person account considers the performance of his fellow soldiers before and after the riot. He writes of the behavior of the white students, some of them defiant, others perceiving a Communist-inspired Kennedy conspiracy in Merediths entry into Mississippis flagship university. The author depicts the student, Meredith, a man who at times seemed disconnected with the violent reality that swirled around him, and who even aspired to be freed of his protectors so that he could just be another Ole Miss student.James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot is both an invaluable perspective on a pivotal moment in American history and an in-depth look at a unique home front military action. From the vantage of the fiftieth anniversary of the riot, Henry T. Gallagher reveals the young man he was in the midst of one of historys most profound tests, a soldier from the Midwest encountering the powder keg of the Old South and its violent racial divisions....9781496856067_University Press of Mississippilibro_electonico_9781496856067_9781496856067Henry T.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/upmississippi-epub-5ca22c56-1aa1-4b74-bba5-8924a71eeee0.epub2012-08-01T00:00:00+00:00University Press of Mississippi