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Civil Rights Queen

Strict Scrutiny

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The Human Toll and Costs of Seeking Racial Justice in Mississippi

Meredith was literally mentally ill because that's the only kind of black man would want to do this that he was an instigator and so forth and so on it just took a long time it was a she called it the last battle of the Civil War because it was just so hard fought open defiance from federal judges even after Meredith received the order from the Supreme Court and he was a Cuban black allowing him to matriculate there was there was violent resistance to people were killed in the course of his desegregating the university and then once he was on campus first of all he had to live separately from everyone else he had to eat separately from everyone else he had a guard and he had to stay for him lonely for him so just a terribly important case and also one that illustrates the human toll and costs on both Meredith but also motley of this landmarks of a rights case.

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