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Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.


James Meredith


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In 1967 while living and studying in New York Meredith decided to run as a Republican against the incumbent Adam Clayton Powell Jr. James Howard Meredith (born June 25 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure a writer and a political adviser. Meredith said "The Republican Party [of New York] made me an offer: full support in every way everything.

In 1962 he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. Kennedy's inaugural address Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. Motivated by President John F.

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