{"id":3187,"date":"2015-11-18T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/hamerinstitute\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2015-12-01T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:27:39","slug":"james-meredith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/2015\/11\/18\/james-meredith\/","title":{"rendered":"James Meredith: Warrior and the America That Created Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/hamerinstitute\/files\/2015\/11\/James-Meredith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"James Meredith\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/hamerinstitute\/files\/2015\/11\/James-Meredith-678x1024.jpg\" style=\"width: 378px;height: 571px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2015\/11\/James-Meredith-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2015\/11\/James-Meredith-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2015\/11\/James-Meredith.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO and The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">present<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The JSU Reading Community Book Talk<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">featuring<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Meredith Coleman McGee discussing her book:<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>James Meredith: Warrior and the America That Created Him <\/em><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.&nbsp;The book examines Meredith&#039;s early life, his actions that resulted in the integration of the University of Mississippi, his 1966 &quot;March Against Fear,&quot; during which he was shot by a shotgun-wielding sniper, and voting rights stories from the civil rights era.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">For more information, please visit: www.jsums.edu\/HamerInstitute or call 601-979-1563<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}