soldiers on Ole Miss campus days of confrontation


The conflict turned into a crisis during the days of September 28 through October 1, 1962, as Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett maintained his public stance against integration and rioting erupted on the Oxford campus. This section features the telephone conversations, correspondence, and press reports from the days leading up to and including the rioting at Ole Miss.


timeline
links to contents pages go to telephone conversations go to in the white house go to public officials weigh in go to civil rights leaders respond go to reports to the press

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