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Ole Miss, New Image: 40 Years Later
ResumeMeredith became famous, a symbol of civil rights reform and all its potential. And Ole Miss became infamous, an embodiment of the segregationist South.
Forty years later, we remember.
Guests:
James Meredith, the first African American graduate of the University of Mississippi
Robert Khayat, chancellor, the University of MIssissippi
Ouida Barnett Atkins, daughter of late Mississippi governor, Ross Barnett
William Doyle, author, "An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962"
This program aired on October 4, 2002.