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From, I Rolled with Ross: A Political Portrait, by Erle Johnston
[I reviewed this book written by a key ally of then former Mississippi =
Governor, Ross R. Barnett [1960-1964] in the November 1981 issue of The =
Journal of Southern History.]

Eldri and I well remember this defiance song which rang for weeks across =
Mississippi during the stormy buildup of resistance -- putting it mildly =
-- to the eventual entrance into the University of Mississippi of very =
heavily protected [by Federals] James Meredith, first Black to crack the =
all-white Mississippi educational system.  We saw the growing mobs in =
Jackson in the days preceding the actual event. And the Sunday =
immediately before the entrance of Meredith to Ole Miss, we -- and Baby =
Maria -- were in downtown Jackson where thousands of armed white men =
were massed.  Racist bumper stickers were legion, especially one "Get =
The Castro Brothers Out Of The White House!"

That night a full blown white riot erupted at the University. up at =
Oxford, well to the north of Jackson.  Hundreds of U.S. Marshals were =
attacked and it required what some historians later said were more U.S. =
Army troops [including Federalized National Guardsmen] than General =
Washington had ever commanded to restore even basic order.  Portions of =
the University were destroyed, hundreds injured, two persons killed.

Meredith graduated in June '63.  Sixteen years later, I spoke [my oldest =
son, John, was with me] under the auspices of the Black Student Union at =
Ole Miss.  Although the good sized gathering was predominantly Black, =
many white students were present.  By that time, there were several =
hundred Black students at the University.

And now, of course, there are many, many more.  And, although there are =
always "miles to go and rivers to cross," the Magnolia State is vastly =
changed.

Lois Chaffee and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, both on two of our =
discussion lists, were present in the state during that bloody era.  =
Lois, a young teacher from North Idaho, came with her great Irish =
Setter, Ivan, to Tougaloo College in late summer, '62.  Joan, from =
Virginia, who had been a Freedom Rider weeks earlier and imprisoned at =
Parchman Penitentiary, entered Tougaloo as a student in late summer, '61 =
-- just as Eldri and I arrived -- I to teach, Eldri to work in the =
school's business office.  Steve Rutledge, also on two of our lists, =
came to Tougaloo from New York at the spring term, 1963.  All were most =
active in our broad-based Jackson Movement and civil rights doings =
generally.

Hunter [Hunter Bear]


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
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HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
Protected by Na=B4shdo=B4i=B4ba=B4i=B4
and Ohkwari'

Check out our Hunterbear website Directory =
http://hunterbear.org/directory.htm
[The site is dedicated to our one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm

See our Community Organizing Course [With new material]
http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm

See http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm

And see http://hunterbear.org/forces_and_faces_along_the_trail.htm