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Sun, 08.18.1963

The First Black Graduates From the University of Mississippi

*On this date in 1963, the first Black student graduated from the University of Mississippi.

James Meredith received his bachelor’s degree from the (then) 115-year-old academic institution.  His initial attempt to attend the school brought on race riots on the Oxford campus that left two people dead, and Federal troops were stationed there to protect him until he graduated.

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What shall I give my children? who are poor, Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land, Who are my sweetest lepers, who demand No velvet and no velvety velour; But who... WHAT SHALL I GIVE MY CHILDREN by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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