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Author Doyle, William, 1957-

Title An American insurrection : the battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 / William Doyle.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LD3413 .D69 2001    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.
Summary Almost 30 years ago, James Meredith tried to integrate the University of Mississippi and ignited an armed white rebellion. This book recreates the day the country went to war against itself.
Contents Past is never dead -- Whom shall I fear? -- Warrior -- Incendiary man -- We shall be invisible -- Order of battle -- In the Lord's hands -- Though the heavens fall -- Gates of bedlam -- Demons out of the earth -- Silent pillar -- Guns of midnight -- History will not forget you -- New civil war has begun -- Wall of fire -- After the dawn -- New age -- Greatest suppertime of all.
Subject University of Mississippi -- History.
University of Mississippi.
History.
University of Mississippi Riot (Oxford, Mississippi : 1962)
Meredith, James.
Meredith, James.
College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History.
College integration.
Mississippi -- Oxford.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History.
Civil rights.
ISBN 0385499698