Racist Episodes Continue to Stir Ole Miss Campus - NYTimes.com
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OXFORD, Miss. — On the campus of the University of Mississippi, a few hundred yards from a monument honoring Confederate soldiers, a statue of the university’s first black student, who enrolled in 1962 amid rioting that left two people dead, stands as what administrators call a powerful symbol of progress.
But when two unidentified men placed a noose around the bronze neck of James Meredith this week and left behind a flag with the Confederate battle emblem, it set into motion a new round of soul-searching in a place where past and present still restlessly coexist.
Students walking to their classes at the University of Mississippi and past a statue of James Meredith, the first black student to enroll at the university. Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times
Federal marshals escorted Mr. Meredith onto the campus in 1962. He called the vandalism this week part of “a breakdown of moral character” in the country. Associated Press
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