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The Past That Would Not Die

Walter Lord

Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South. On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An Air Force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits, Meredith would have be...

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It was described as unbelievable and made the speaker think of an ESPN piece about a football game before Mississippi's integration. The book's focus on James Meredith's integration of the University of Mississippi was highlighted.

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I just finished Walter Lorde's book the past that would not die

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It was described as unbelievable and made the speaker think of an ESPN piece about a football game before Mississippi's integration. The book's focus on James Meredith's integration of the University of Mississippi was highlighted.

"

I just finished Walter Lorde's book the past that would not die

the book was just unreal

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