The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO and The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations
present
The JSU Reading Community Book Talk
featuring
Meredith Coleman McGee discussing her book:
James Meredith: Warrior and the America That Created Him
James Meredith is a civil rights icon who took on the U.S. federal government and forced it to take a stand on whether African Americans were entitled to receive higher education at the same schools as whites. The book examines Meredith's early life, his actions that resulted in the integration of the University of Mississippi, his 1966 "March Against Fear," during which he was shot by a shotgun-wielding sniper, and voting rights stories from the civil rights era.
Please join us on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at 6:00 pm at the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO located at 1017 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217.
For more information, please visit: www.jsums.edu/HamerInstitute or call 601-979-1563