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James Meredith

James Meredith

James Meredith was born on a small farm in Mississippi in 1933 and served in the United States Air Force for nine years. Meredith risked his life when he successfully applied the laws of integration and became the first black student at the University of Mississippi. He earned a law degree at Columbia University Law School and became an entrepreneur, speaker and conservative activist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Three Years in Mississippi. Today James Meredith is a tree farmer and grandfather in Jackson, Mississippi, helping to raise his grandchildren. William Doyle is the award-winning author of Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes; An... Read full bio

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A Mission from God
A Mission from God A Memoir and Challenge for America By: James Meredith
with: William Doyle
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: August 7, 2012
“I am not a civil rights hero. I am a warrior, and I am on a mission from God.” —James Meredith James Meredith engineered two of the most epic events of the American civil rights era: the desegregation of...
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