Mississippi
Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his Mississippi hometown
A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith.
James Meredith, who became the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, acknowledges the crowd in Kosciusko, Miss., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, during the unveiling of a Mississippi Department of Archives and History marker ... [2952 chars]