James Meredith Research Paper

One of the historical figures I admire the most is General William Jackson Palmer. General Palmer was born in 1836 in Delaware. He would go on to become “A civil engineer, Civil War soldier, owner and co-founder of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, philanthropist” (historycolorado.org). During the Civil War, he quickly became a young general and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. After relocating to Denver, his railroad success was only part of the impact he had on the Colorado frontier. He founded Colorado Springs with a Utopian vision in mind, and enforced a level of morality that was rarely seen in Colorado at that time. He would go on to establish organizations and buildings that aided the sick, supported and encouraged

The start of King's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement began in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was jailed. Community leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association and asked King to be the leader. The organization would urge blacks to boycott the buses and use other means of transportation. The boycott lasted 381 days. On November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court declared that Alabama's bus segregation was unconstitutional and on December 21, 1956 buses were desegregated. (Michael).

This march was to help with how the laws against blacks were taken down for good and how it affected their future. This is probably one of my favorite stories ever.

William Morris Stewart was born on August 9, 1825 to Miranda Morris and Frederick Augustus Stewart, on a family farm in Lyons, New York. At a young age his family moved from Lyon, New York to Mesopotamia, Ohio. At age 14, he left home to attend West Farmington Academy in Ohio and Lyons Union School in New York which he earned tuition for by working a common laborer and school teacher. With help from a Lyons attorney that provided a loan to attend Yale University, he only attended three terms from 1849 to 1850. When the gold mining became big he left to Nevada City, California on an adventure to find gold. After failing to find gold, he began to study law and by 1852 was admitted to the California bar and establishing a practice. He was known as an expert in

Maynard Jackson was born on March 23,1938 in Dallas, Texas where his father was a minister. The family moved to Atlanta in 1945, when his father took the pastorship at Friendship Baptist Church.Maynard Jr.'s roots ran very deep in Atlanta.His mother was a professor of French at Spelman College.In 1959 his mother became the first African American

In a march against segregation and barriers for African-American voting rights, peaceful marchers were exposed to harsh treatment by the police, 50 being hospitalized by the terrorism inflicted on them (civilrights.org). The targeted protest became infamous in the Civil Rights Movement, marked “Bloody Sunday” and was crucial to gaining favor of the public (civilrights.org). The two causes went hand in hand in this, rocketing in support and becoming the main goal of the country - the end of segregation was the most dire problem that the Civil Rights Movement needed to solve. And with the 24th Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Voting Rights Act of 1965 being ratified, the civil rights movement and the fight to end segregation reached its legal goal (infoplease.com). However, the nation’s mentality needed work - though the popularity of Civil Rights was rising, many riots and racial hate crimes continued to occur throughout the country, with many casualties resulting from them (infoplease.com). The ratification of these laws may have made the “separate but equal” rhetoric illegal for the U.S. but the citizens inside it still battled for their beliefs. As segregation and civil rights become national topics, their

Fountain Hughes, was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and at the time of the interview he was one hundred and one years old. He was born into slavery at a tobacco plantation in Virginia. He did not seem to like to talk too much about his years as a boy during the time of slavery or during the Civil War, but the interviewer did manage to gain some insight to the conditions that Fountain Hughes lived through. His live not only as a slave but also as a young freed man in the late Civil War and Reconstruction area.

John Simpson Kirkpatrick ‘the man with the donkey’ has had an incredible involvement with Australia in the World War One. His life leading up and during the war made contemporary Australia commemorate Simpson because of his sacrifice and the significance of his involvement during the war and his true Australian spirit.

James Baldwin was born on August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem, New York to a young single mother named Emma Jones. She never talked about James’s biological father because of his drug abuse and she didn’t want her baby boy to be put in danger by her ex-husband’s problems, but Emma went on to marry a Baptist Minister named David Baldwin when James was about three years old. James and his stepfather had a strained relationship and even though this was true James still tried to follow in his stepfather’s footsteps. James also referred to his stepfather as his actual father. When James reached his teen years he served as a youth minister in a Harlem Pentecostal church. He started at the age of 14 and stopped at the age of 16. As James went through high school, he demonstrated a true gift for writing and a true love for reading. The high school, he attended was DeWitt-Clinton High School in Bronx New York. Baldwin worked on the school Magazine with future famous Richard Avedon.

Never being able to see your friends and family seems like something unimaginable but for Morris Kent because of his own actions has to live in a nightmare for the rest of his life. Morris Kent was arrested at the age of 16 for 3 counts of robbery, 3 counts of home robberies and worst of all 2 counts of rape. Because of the severity of the crimes the prosecutor moved to try morris as an adult as the punishment would be more severe, but morris’s lawyer didn’t want to have Morris tried as an adult so he planned to argue that Morris had a “mental illness” so the case would stay in juvenile court but in the end the judges ruled against Morris and for the prosecutor. As a result Kent’s punishment was more severe at a sentence of 30 to 90 years in prison but Morris not agreeing with the decision the judges had made Morris appealed stating that the case should have stayed in juvenile court but as the judges didn’t feel the same way about the case they ruled

This registration was ran by the "local Council of Federated Organizations", also known as COFO. There were about 100 white students that had helped register in this voting and another several hundred were invited to help make this register expand. June 15, 1964, the first 300 students arrived to vote. The following day three students, two Caucasian men and an African American man, were going to vote but strangely disappeared. Six days later their bodies were found beaten and they were killed. Because the workers thought they were surrounded by threats and violence, the workers slacked on federal protection and the investigation. The crisis between the three students brought the question, "Would the public outcry have been the same if all three victims had been black?" In Hamer's text, she went to a mass meeting not even know what a "mass meeting" was. She stated, "I was just curious to go, so I did." This meeting was ran by the "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," also known as, SNCC. At the meeting she was told that "black people had the right to vote." Knowing this information she got on a bus heading to Indianola along with other passengers to go register to vote. The next day she lost her job, along with her husband, and got kicked off the plantation where she had lived and worked for 18 years. She and two others were

He fought to integrate the University of Mississippi and though his own efforts were denied he rejoiced when James Meredith succeeded later. He helped key African- American witnesses to the murder of Emmett Till get out of town and escape vigilante justice from white mobs. He had fought for his country during World War II and wanted basic freedoms for his fellow African-Americans back home. He became a leader in the NAACP of Mississippi and helped organize voter registration for African-Americans. He was assassinated by a white supremacist who got away with murder for years before political consciousness and swayed against race

Many famous people were born in Mississippi. From civil rights activists to writers and musicians the rich history of Mississippi is strong. Well known blues musician Robert Leroy Johnson had a very short life but his music still effected the world of music today. James Meredith a civil rights activist and the first African American to go to Mississippi state university also lived there. Shelby Foote a famous writer was born in Mississippi but spent a lot of his life traveling.

A long time ago there was a city called Jamesville. Jamesville always had a big race every year.There were a lot of good racers in Jamesville but Raymond was considered to be the best racer in Jamesville.He was a handsome,tall man who had won a lot of trophies.Raymond had a lot of fast race cars.The other racers in Jamesville were determined to stop Raymond him from winning that year’s trophy.

However, being the focal point of such racism seemed to ignite a passion in Meredith. In March 1966, he started his ‘March Against Fear’ from Memphis to Jackson to protest against racism – especially the violence many African-Americans faced when attempting to register to vote. Shortly into his march, Meredith was shot and was hospitality. However, his place on the march was taken by such figures in the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael who determined to finish the march on Meredith’s behalf.