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James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement). [1]
Four Ole Miss students were recently awarded first place at the 18th annual Gillespie Business Plan Competition at the University of Mississippi. Patrick Phillips, Tanner McCraney, Sam Pennock and ...
By 1968, Ole Miss had around 100 African American students, [55] and by the 2019–2020 academic year, African Americans constituted 12.5 percent of the student body. [56] In 1972, Ole Miss purchased Rowan Oak, the former home of Nobel Prize–winning writer William Faulkner. [57] [58] The building has been preserved as it was at Faulkner's ...
Commencement speaker Wright Thompson urged Ole Miss graduates to stay in state and to avoid the "seductive coats of nostalgia" in his address to the 5,000 University of Mississippi graduates on ...
The Ole Miss Associated Student Body—the university’s student government—said in a statement that at the protest, “unacceptable remarks were made that departed from our cherished values. ...
The DM is a part of the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center. The Director of Student Media reports to the Dean of the School of Journalism and New Media. The DM staff consists of approximately 15 editors, along with a couple dozen reporters and photographers. These numbers vary from year to year and semester to semester.
Lee, who studied social work at Ole Miss, graduated with his bachelor’s degree in May 2022. Lee was also a graduate from Murrah High School in Jackson. ... Ole Miss student Jimmie Jay Lee ...
WUMS (92.1 FM, "Rebel Radio") is a student-run formatted college radio station in University, Mississippi. WUMS is owned and licensed by the Student Media Center of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). WUMS covers most of Lafayette County, Mississippi, which includes Oxford and University, with an ERP of 2,900 watts.