James Meredith and Integration of Ole Miss
James Meredith was the first black student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. One of his main goals was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order.