ABSTRACT
On 5 June 1966, James Meredith set out from Memphis, Tennessee, on a ‘March Against Fear’ through Mississippi to the state capital of Jackson. Meredith had desegregated the University of Mississippi in 1962 amid a great deal of controversy. White resistance to Meredith's admission to the university had resulted in clashes between a white mob and federal marshals and a federalized Mississippi National Guard. The white mob had wounded 160 federal marshals and killed two people.
March Against Fear: Instigated by James Meredith in 1966 as an individual protest to assert his right to free movement in the state, after his shooting it was continued with the support of all of the major civil rights organizations.
