William Faulkner's nephew pulled him away from a group of rioters led by disgraced former Major General Edwin Walker, who was supported Governor Ross Barnett's defiance of troops sent by John F. Kennedy to escort him into he Lyceum Building.
In 1967, he was defeated in the special election that returned Adam Clayton Powell to congress. Disobedience of an earlier ruling in his favor led to the case which determined that there is no right to a jury trial for the charge of refusing a federal court order. William Faulkner's nephew pulled him away from a group of rioters led by disgraced former Major General Edwin Walker, who was supported Governor Ross Barnett's defiance of troops sent by John F. Kennedy to escort him into he Lyceum Building. FTP, name this first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
In 1967, he was defeated in the special election that returned Adam Clayton Powell to congress.
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