James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story
Language: English
Published by University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2012
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- Title
- James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story
- Author
- Henry T. Gallagher
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi, Jackson
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1617036536
- ISBN 13
- 9781617036538
- Item weight
- 2.1 pounds
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 14.0 x 4.0 inches
- Seller catalogs
- Biography & Memoir, Signed Books
James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot is the memoir of one of the participants, a young army second lieutenant named Henry Gallagher, born and raised in Minnesota. His military police battalion from New Jersey deployed, without the benefit of riot-control practice or advance briefing, into a deadly civil rights confrontation. He was thereafter assigned as the officer-in-charge of Meredith's security detail at a time when he faced very real threats to his life.
Gallagher's first-person account considers the performance of his fellow soldiers before and after the riot. He writes of the behavior of the white students, some of them defiant, others perceiving a Communist-inspired Kennedy conspiracy in Meredith's entry into Mississippi's ""flagship"" university. The author depicts the student, Meredith, a man who at times seemed disconnected with the violent reality that swirled around him, and who even aspired to be freed of his protectors so that he could just be another Ole Miss student.
James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot is both an invaluable perspective on a pivotal moment in American history and an in-depth look at a unique home-front military action. From the vantage of the fiftieth anniversary of the riot, Henry T. Gallagher reveals the young man he was in the midst of one of history's most profound tests, a soldier from the Midwest encountering the powder keg of the Old South and its violent racial divisions.
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