31,000 Troops To Get Him To Class—Then Shot For Voter Registration

Описание: In 1962, James Meredith became the first Black student at the University of Mississippi. Governor Ross Barnett physically blocked his entrance. When federal marshals escorted Meredith to campus on September 30, white mobs rioted with guns and Molotov cocktails. Two people died. 160 marshals were wounded, 28 shot. President Kennedy deployed 31,000 federal troops—the largest military operation on American soil since the Civil War—just so one Black man could attend college. Meredith graduated in 1963 despite constant harassment. Four years later, on June 5, 1966, he began a solo March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, to encourage Black voter registration. On day two, white gunman Aubrey Norvell shot Meredith in the neck, head, back, and legs with a shotgun. Meredith survived. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Floyd McKissick continued the march. During this march, Stokely Carmichael first declared "Black Power" in Greenwood, Mississippi, on June 16, 1966, birthing the Black Power movement. By June 26, 15,000 marchers reached Jackson—the largest civil rights demonstration in Mississippi history. Over 4,000 Black Mississippians registered to vote. Norvell served 18 months in prison for shooting Meredith. This is the story they don't teach. This is Black History Unfiltered.
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