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03550aam a2200481 a 4500 001 7E117294021F11E2B17D32BF6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 120618s2012 nyua 000 0aeng 010 $a 2012022963 020 $a 1451674732 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781451674736 (pbk.) 020 $a 1451674740 (ebook) 020 $a 9781451674743 (ebook) 020 $a 1451674724 (hardcover) 020 $a 9781451674729 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)759912562 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d HHO $d YDXCP $d VP@ $d CDX $d KCP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a LD3412.9 $b .M47 2012 082 00 $a 378.762/83 $2 23 100 1 $a Meredith, James, $d 1933- 245 1 $a A mission from God : $b a memoir and challenge for America / $c James Meredith, with William Doyle. 250 $a 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. 260 $a New York : $b Atria Books, $c 2012. 300 $a xiii, 267 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 520 $a James Meredith engineered two of the most epic events of the American civil rights era: the desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962, which helped open the doors of education to all Americans; and the March Against Fear in 1966, which helped open the floodgates of voter registration in the South. Part memoir, part manifesto, A Mission from God is James Meredith?s look back at his courageous and action-packed life and his challenge to America to address the most critical issue of our day: how to educate and uplift the millions of black and white Americans who remain locked in the chains of poverty by improving our public education system. Born on a small farm in Mississippi, Meredith returned home in 1960 after nine years in the U.S. Air Force, with a master plan to shatter the system of state terror and white supremacy in America. He waged a fourteen-month legal campaign to force the state of Mississippi to honor his rights as an American citizen and admit him to the University of Mississippi. He fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Meredith endured months of death threats, daily verbal abuse, and round-the-clock protection from federal marshals and thousands of troops to became the first black graduate of the University of Mississippi in 1963. In 1966 he was shot by a sniper on the second day of his ?Walk Against Fear? to inspire voter registration in Mississippi. Though Meredith never allied with traditional civil rights groups, leaders of civil rights organizations flocked to help him complete the march, one of the last great marches of the civil rights era. Decades later, Meredith says, ?Now it is time for our next great mission from God. . . . You and I have a divine responsibility to transform America.? 600 10 $a Meredith, James, $d 1933- 610 20 $a University of Mississippi $x Students $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American college students $z Mississippi $v Biography. 610 20 $a University of Mississippi $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $z Southern States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Civil rights movements $z Southern States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 700 1 $a Doyle, William, $d 1957- 941 $a 4 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204052556.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110034635.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150507015600.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20130403010801.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E117294021F11E2B17D32BF6AFF544E 994 $a 92 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search