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‘We’ve come a long way, but we still have a ways to go.’ Last night, the 82nd U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. discussed civil rights over the past 50 years, speaking for the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College’s fall convocation.
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University filmmaker produces James Meredith integration documentary Matthew Graves of The University of Mississippi Media and Documentary Projects will show a documentary on Ole Miss integration at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Ford Center.
COURTESY MATTHEW GRAVES
BY HANNA JALAWAN hjalawan@yahoo.com
Fifty years after James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss, Matthew Graves, producer and director at The University of Mississippi Media and Documentary Projects division, has paid tribute to Meredith in the form of a documentary film, “Rebels: James Meredith and
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the Integration of Ole Miss.” Graves learned of Meredith and the struggle to integrate The University of Mississippi when he moved to Oxford seven years ago. “I just became so intrigued by it and thought it was just an incredible story,” he said. “I thought it would make a really See REBELS, PAGE 5
YEARS OF INTEGRATION OPENING THE CLOSED SOCIETY
EVENTS SCHEDULE
Sunday, Sept. 30 6:30 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts Statewide day of remembrance: “A Walk of Reconciliation and Redemption” 7:00 p.m.
Lyceum Prayer service on the Lyceum steps 8:00 p.m. PHOTOS BY AUSTIN MCAFEE | The Daily Mississippian
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., speaks at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Convocation. Holder, who is the 82nd attorney general, discussed the importance of James Meredith enrolling at The University of Mississippi. (BOTTOM CENTER: Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones)
BY JENNIFER NASSAR thedmnews@gmail.com
The University of Mississippi and Oxford communities had the opportunity to hear U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speak last night at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Holder, who spoke for the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College fall convocation, discussed the progress integration has made and the journey still ahead.
Chancellor Dan Jones also spoke, highlighting the state’s past and the university’s approach to 50 years of integration. “This is a remarkable time for our university,” Jones said. Jones said in the midst of the university’s celebration, we are also “commemorating the tragic events” that occurred because of the admission of James Meredith. “His heroic actions changed our university, our
state and our nation,” he said. Jones added that even 50 years later, “Injustice still exists in the world today.” “We still live in an imperfect world,” he said. “This university, state and country have not arrived at the place we need to be.” Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez, dean of the honors college, showed gratitude for two Ole Miss alumni who See HOLDER, PAGE 4
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts Documentary Film: “REBELS: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss”
Monday, Oct. 1 9:30 a.m.
Student Union Ballroom “The U.S. Marshals and Oxford – A 50th Anniversary Panel,” Panelists: John Meredith (son of James Meredith), Don Forsht, Hershel Garner, Denzil N. Bud Staple, Curt Bowden, Robert Moore (retired U.S. Marshals) 11:00 a.m.
Student Union Lobby Black Student Union tribute to James Meredith 1:30 p.m.
Robert C. Khayat Law Center, Room 1078 “A Lawyer’s Impact: Mississippi Burning,” Speaker John Doar, U.S. Department of Justice 3:00 p.m.
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics “Integration at Ole Miss – from an Army Perspective,” Speaker: Henry Gallagher 5:30 p.m.
The Civil Rights Monument “Meredith and Me: The Walk” 6:00 p.m.**
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts “50 Years of Integration, Opening the Closed Society,” Keynote Speaker: Harry Belafonte **= Ticket Required
GRAPHIC BY WILL STROUTH | The Daily Mississippian
A Freedom Trail marker will be placed on the northwest corner of the Lyceum at 11 a.m. today.