Ever wonder what exactly it was like the day James Meredith attempted to enroll at Ole Miss? Well apparently many Ole Miss student did. This past Tuesday The Overby Center was bursting at the seams to hear author William Doyle discuss Ole Miss, and everything that happened that eventful night.
The crowd listened from the aisles the floor and even outside the Auditorium as Doyle discussed his book ' An American Auditorium.' The book details the violent events that surrounded James Meredith's attempts to enroll at Ole Miss in 1962. Doyle talked about how he was the first person to ever see the over 9,000 pages of information the FBI had on Meredith. The program was apart of a year long observance by the University of Mississippi called "Opening the Closed Society: Commanding 50 years of Integration at the University of Mississippi." The program was put together by the university-sponsored civil rights subcommittee.
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