Meredith, James

James Meredith was born on a small farm in Mississippi in 1933 and served in the United States Air Force for nine years. Meredith risked his life when he successfully applied the laws of integration and became the first black student at the University of Mississippi. He earned a law degree at Columbia University Law School and became an entrepreneur, speaker and conservative activist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed "Three Years in Mississippi". Today James Meredith is a tree farmer and grandfather in Jackson, Mississippi, helping to raise his grandchildren.

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