The book The Battle of Ole Miss is a nonfiction history published in 2010. Author Frank Lambert was a college professor (Purdue University) at the time of publication. The Battle of Ole Miss is an important historical event that took place in 1962. Ole Miss, of course, refers to the University of Mississippi. The battle […]
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The March Against Fear and James Meredith
The other major event in US history from June 6 I’d like to discuss today is the March Against Fear, a protest begun by James Meredith in Mississippi in 1966. Although it may seem rather different than my earlier memorialization of Operation Overlord (see previous blog post), there are, in fact, some connections. These two […]