“Nobody handpicked me, nobody chose me, and nobody nominated me. I was brought by my own consent, I was guided by my own beliefs, and I am here stood by my own willing.”

About James Meredith

Civil Rights Activist • American

James Meredith is a pivotal American Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, and political adviser. He famously became the first African-American student to enroll at the segregated University of Mississippi in 1962, a...