“Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship. I've got my civil rights. I want my human rights.”

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...