An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.

James Meredith

American civil rights movement figure (born 1933)

James Howard Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal…