Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Past That Would Not Die

The Past That Would Not Die

Walter Lord
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South.

On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An Air Force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits, Meredith would have been welcomed were it not for the color of his skin. As the first African-American student to register at a previously segregated school, however, he risked his life. The Supreme Court had determined that Oxford’s university must desegregate, and several hundred federal marshals came to support Meredith. It would not be enough. As President Kennedy called for peace, a riot exploded in Oxford. By eleven o’clock that night, the marshals were out of tear gas. By midnight, the highway patrol had pulled out, gunfire was spreading, and Kennedy was forced to send in the army.

In this definitive history, Walter Lord argues that the riot was not an isolated incident, but a manifestation of racial hatred that was wrapped up in the state’s identity, stretching all the way back to the Civil War.
Pages
275
Release
January 01, 1968
ISBN 13
9780060127008

The Past That Would Not Die

Walter Lord
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South.

On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An Air Force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits, Meredith would have been welcomed were it not for the color of his skin. As the first African-American student to register at a previously segregated school, however, he risked his life. The Supreme Court had determined that Oxford’s university must desegregate, and several hundred federal marshals came to support Meredith. It would not be enough. As President Kennedy called for peace, a riot exploded in Oxford. By eleven o’clock that night, the marshals were out of tear gas. By midnight, the highway patrol had pulled out, gunfire was spreading, and Kennedy was forced to send in the army.

In this definitive history, Walter Lord argues that the riot was not an isolated incident, but a manifestation of racial hatred that was wrapped up in the state’s identity, stretching all the way back to the Civil War.
Pages
275
Release
January 01, 1968
ISBN 13
9780060127008

More books from Walter Lord

A Night to Remember

4/5 ( ratings)

Day of Infamy

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Miracle of Dunkirk (Wordsworth Collection)

4/5 ( ratings)

The Discovery of the Titanic

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Night Lives On

4/5 ( ratings)

Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

4.4/5 ( ratings)

A Night to Remember

4/5 ( ratings)

Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Dawn's Early Light

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War

4/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Titanic Chronicles: A Night to Remember and The Night Lives On (The Titanic Chronicles)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

پل خیلی دور است - به انضمام فاجعه غرق کشتی تایتانیک

2.3/5 ( ratings)

A Night to Remember 2 Reprint Edition by Lord, Walter published by Holt McDougal (2008)

2.3/5 ( ratings)

World in Crisis: Classic Accounts of World War II

2.3/5 ( ratings)

The Miracle of Dunkirk (Wordsworth Collection)

2.3/5 ( ratings)

Les Secrets d'Un Naufrage

2.3/5 ( ratings)

The Dawn's Early Light

2.3/5 ( ratings)

The Third Man Theme

2.3/5 ( ratings)

The Fremantle Diary: A Journal of the Confederacy

2.3/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader