19621776 Club
A district court orders Ole Miss to register James Meredith
The injunction lands the same day Mississippi's legislature creates a new felony charge, one Meredith is convicted of in absentia within hours.
For more than a year, James Meredith had been fighting to enroll at the University of Mississippi, a campus that admitted only white students under the state's segregation laws. On September 13, 1962, the U.S. District Court entered an injunction ordering the Board of Trustees and university officials to register him. Mississippi's legislature answered quickly, passing a law barring admission to anyone convicted of a felony or crime of "moral turpitude," and Jackson County convicted Meredith, in absentia, of false voter registration the very same day…
