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Title: James Meredith receives award
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description: James Howard Meredith was born on June 25, 1933 in Mississippi. He served in the United States Air Force from 1951-1960. In 1961 he was twice denied admission to Whites-only University of Mississippi. Meredith filed suit, based on racial discrimination, with the backing of the NAACP. After several hearings and rulings, the case went to the Supreme Court which upheld earlier rulings in Meredith's favor. After several obstruction attempts by the governor and student riots, Meredith was admitted. On October 2, 1962, accompanied by U.S. Marshals, he became the first African American student to attend the university. He graduated in 1963 with a degree in political science.
Pictured is James Meredith, the first African American enrolled at the University of Mississippi. He is in Los Angeles to accept the Booker T. Washington Award presented by the Los Angeles alumni chapter of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. Meredith is holding a press conference at Los Angeles International Airport. Photograph dated April 13, 1963. See images 00082782 and 00155022 through 00155032 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00155024
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d058_f35_i11
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127930
Subject: Meredith, James,--1933-
Tuskegee Institute--Awards
Los Angeles International Airport
African Americans--Civil rights--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
Civil rights movements--United States
Award winners
Men
Press conferences
Microphones
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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