Talk:James Meredith
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This month is the 40th anniversary of Meredith's enrollment at the previously all-white Ole Miss. I daresay he was even more heroic than Rosa Parks. --Ed Poor
I eliminated the link to abebooks - it just goes to a search screen for a commercial book vendor. Also, I was not really sure what the following phrase was really supposed to mean:
James Meredith was not a part of the civil rights movement; just a private citizen who believed he had the same entitlements as any other citizen. - If it means that his enrollment was not a part of the civil rights movement, then the statement is wrong - just based on the sources cited in the article & private citizens wanting the rights of any other citizen is a fair definition of civil rights. The statement that he was one of the first black soldiers after integration was confusing - i don't believe that the military was actually desegregated unitl 1954, when the last black unit was dissolved - the process was actually began in 1948 with Truman's EO 9981. Would a statement that he was in the military while the desegregation of the military units was underway be material to the article? bob I replaced the link to ABEbooks because this book is quite difficult to find and if it is available to buy at all you might find it there (and failure to locate a copy will sent you to WorldCat.
- James Meredith was not a part of the civil rights movement; just a private citizen who believed he had the same entitlements as any other citizen. -
- If it means that his enrollment was not a part of the civil rights movement, then the statement is wrong - just based on the sources cited in the article & private citizens wanting the rights of any other citizen is a fair definition of civil rights.
I agree wholeheartedly with your statement - certainly, Mr. Meredith's relationship with various civil rights leaders has been rocky - & the paragraph above would be an excellent addition to the article - but I'm not sure that's what the first paragraph said & I was unclear as to what exactly what was meant -
I don't have any real heartburn with the abebooks link - I use them myself - but I haven't found the book difficult to find at all (WorldCat says its in 1291 libraries - including 16 in Colorado)
I'll be adding bits & pieces to the page as time permits & look forward to your review.
Does anyone know what happenned between 1968 and 2002? It seems like there's likely to be some information there somewhere.... -FZ 14:12, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- He lived in New York, made some money working on Wall Street, and then got into trouble as a slumlord when he was the landlord for a lot of low end apartments. Morris 13:27, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
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It seems to me entry is more of a memoir than a history article. Consider revising...
I'm thinking of adding more details about the events
of the days in the fall of 1962 when he actually arrived at the University of Mississippi, and maybe more on his litigation that led up to that. Morris 13:23, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
