Ole Miss Riot of 1962 A Transformative, Deadly Riot

Hello there friends, welcome back to The Good, The Bad and The Pure Evil. Todays episode is about the Ole Miss Riot of 1962, when African American want to be student James Meredith tried to enrol in Mississippi University or the Ole Miss. Sounds fairly straight forward but back then Mississippi was not in favour of integration even though the ruling of Brown v Board of Education had being about 8 years prior allowing all public schools to have both whites and blacks attend. Any way Mississippi wasn't having it and when James was finally told he could enrol and start in the autumn of 1962, all hell broke out! Leading to local police, patrol highway men, national guard and the US Attorney General and President becoming involved.......