Years before he helped James Meredith, he had his undergraduate transcripts sent from Alcorn State to Mississippi Law School, causing the Jackson Dail
Years before he helped James Meredith, he had his undergraduate transcripts sent from Alcorn State to Mississippi Law School, causing the Jackson Daily News to run the headline, "Negro Applies To Enter Ole Miss." The Law School responded by passing a rule that all applicants had to receive letters of recommendation from five alumni. He eventually joined the NAACP. On June 12, 1963, he pulled into his driveway and was shot while getting out of his car by Byron De La Beckwith. Name this man whose murder inspired the movie Ghosts of Mississippi.
Years before he helped James Meredith, he had his undergraduate transcripts sent from Alcorn State to Mississippi Law School, causing the Jackson Daily News to run the headline, "Negro Applies To Enter Ole Miss.
(Medgar) Evers