This document contains summarised notes on the James Meredith event that occurred, its good and bad impacts and the successes and limitations of the key Civil rights education events: Brown vs Topeka, Little Rock Nine and James Meredith.
L.Q: What impact did the James Meredith incident have?
Key words:
Federal = the central government that has power over the
states
States = areas that are part of the same autonomy in certain
areas
Integrate = bring together
WCC = white citizen’s councils – groups of set citizens who
wanted to oppose integration
Do now:
1. When was the James Meredith incident?
1952
2. What happened during the James Meredith incident?
Applied to Mississippi university but was rejected because he
was African American
3. Which events did the James Meredith incident follow and how
are they linked?
Brown v. Topeka in 1954 which was meant to have integrated
schools
Little rock nine which led to federal intervention and President
Eisenhower forcing the integration of schools in Arkansas
Key events of the James Meredith incident:
In 1962, James Meredith re-applied to the University of
Mississippi which had rejected him in May 1961
NAACP challenged his rejection arguing it was because he
was black
Supreme court ordered the university to admit him,
University officials and Ross Barnett (the state’s governor)
disobeyed the Supreme Court ruling by physically
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