What the records say
- When
- Sep 1962
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 2
- Coordinates
- 34.36° N, 89.53° W
- Description
- dispute over integration at University of Mississippi
- Injured
- 300
- Cause
- Brown v. Board of Education
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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