Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Meredith and several battalions of National Guardsmen...
...Students Wake Up! We have another sin to expose," Ray Sherbill, one of the five "coordinators" for the National Student Conference Against Racism (NSCAR) announces in its keynote speech. From the red, white and blue bannered stage, James Meredith establishes the conference's tone. "This is a great opportunity to establish what the American consciousness is." And a massive, pro-busing march on May 17 proposed by Thomas Atkins, the head of NAACP in Boston, is the focal point of the conference...
...Meredith organized the 1966 "March Against Fear," a drive to register southern black voters. He led marchers on a 260 mile trip from Memphis. Tenn. to Jacksonville. Miss. registering more than 4000 blacks. Boston needs redistricting carried out on the basis of figures gathered by an objective non-interested party, Meredith said...
...Mississippi, which is over half black, could achieve desegregation, then Boston, which is only 15 per cent black, should also be able to do it, Meredith said...
...Meredith said he thought the conference in Boston would be important because "how Boston deals with desegregation will determine how the rest of the country deals with...