Cases

Meredith v. Fair, 199 F. Supp. 754 (S.D. Miss. 1961)

Meredith v. Fair, 298 F.2d 696 (5th Cir. 1962)

Meredith v. Fair, 202 F. Supp. 224 (S.D. Miss. 1962)

Meredith v. Fair, 305 F.2d 341 (5th Cir. 1962)

Meredith v. Fair, 305 F.2d 343 (5th Cir. 1962)

Meredith v. Fair, 306 F.2d 374 (5th Cir. 1962)

Meredith v. Fair, 313 F.2d 532 (5th Cir. 1962)

Websites

Integrating Ole Miss (John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum), http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/

The Integration of Ole Miss (History.com), http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/ole-miss-integration

UM History of Integration (University of Mississippi), http://50years.olemiss.edu/

Books

William Doyle, An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 (2001)

Charles W. Eagles, The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss, University of North Carolina Press, (2009)

Aram Goudsouzian, Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear (2014)

Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi (2003)

Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, Harper Collins (2012)

Meredith Coleman McGee, James Meredith: Warrior and the America That Created Him (2003)

James Meredith with William Doyle, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America, Atria (2012)

Constance Baker Motley, Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (1998)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (2002)

J. Clay Smith, Jr., Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer (1993)

Mary Stanton, Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust (2003)

Articles

Nick Bryant, The Black Man Who Was Crazy Enough to Apply to Ole Miss, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 53, 60-71 (Autumn 2006)

Rupert Cromwell, Obituary: John Minor Wisdom, The Independent (June 3, 1999), http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-minor-wisdom-1097913.html

Erin Edgemon, Second ex-Ole Miss student sentenced for tying noose on James Meredith statue, Alabama Media Group, July 22, 2016, http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/second_ex-ole_miss_student_sen.html

Paul Finkelman, Not Only the Judges’ Robes Were Black: African-American Lawyers as Social Engineers, 47 Stan. L. Rev. 161 (1994)

Melissa Fay Greene, Pride and Prejudice, N.Y. Times Magazine, Dec. 25, 2005

Dale Meghan Healey, Constance Baker Motley Is the Civil Rights Movement’’s Unsung Heroine, Vice Magazine, http://www.vice.com/read/constance-baker-motley-is-the-civil-rights-movements-unsung-heroine-456

Joe Holley, Constance Motley Dies; Rights Lawyer, Judge, Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2005

Frank Lambert, The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States’ Rights, (Oxford University Press 2010)

Douglas Martin, Constance Baker Motley, Civil Rights Trailblazer, Dies at 84, N.Y. Times, Sept. 29, 2005

Symposium on the Legacy of Constance Baker Motley, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 7 (November 2017)

Tribute: Constance Baker Motley, Columbia Law School, Sept. 2005, available at https://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2005_older/2005/september/motley

NAACP, NAACP: 100 Years of History, http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history

Negro Files Suit for Admission To All-White U. of Mississippi, N.Y. Times, May 31, 1961

Negro Ban Eased; Court Told U. of Mississippi Would Admit Negroes, N.Y. Times, August 16, 1961

Negro in Integration Suit Jailed in Mississippi Case, N.Y. Times, July 7, 1962

Negro Loses Court Move For College Admission Now, N.Y. Times, July 10, 1962

Mississippi U. Told Again to Take Negro, N.Y. Times, July 27, 1962

Mississippi U. Wins New Stay on Negro, N.Y. Times, July 27, 1962

Resolute Mississippian: James Howard Meredith, N.Y. Times, September 17, 1962

Claude Sitton, Negro Rejected at Mississippi U., N.Y. Times, September 21, 1962

Claude Sitton, Meredith Rebuffed Again Despite Restraining Order, N.Y. Times, September 26, 1962

Hedrick Smith, Court is Obeyed; College Trustees Heed 8 Judges’’ Demand, Made at Hearing University BOWS to Courts Order, August 14, 1962

Hedrick Smith, Negro’s Lawyers Resent U.S. Lag, N.Y. Times, September 27, 1962

Valerie Strauss, James Meredith: This is what Mnegoartin Luther King Jr. would tell school “reformers”, The Washington Post, April 28, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/04/28/james-meredith-this-is-what-martin-luther-king-jr-would-tell-school-reformers/?utm_term=.a45bbe9ac443

Susan Svriuga, Former Ole Miss student pleads guilty to hanging noose around statue honoring the first black student, The Washington Post, March 24, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/24/former-ole-miss-student-pleads-guilty-to-hanging-noose-around-statue-honoring-the-first-black-student/

Media

Connecticut Public Television: Justice is a Black Woman: The Life and Work of Constance Baker Motley (2012)

ESPN Media: 30 for 30: Volume II: Ghosts of Mississippi (October 30, 2012)

Federal Judicial Center, History of the Federal Judiciary: Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2622&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na

LDF, Who We Are, http://www.naacpldf.org/about-ldf

PBS Video: Eyes on the Prize: America’’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965: Fighting Back (1957–1962) (January 28, 1987)

The Trials of Constance Baker Motley, 2015, http://www.thetrialsofcbm.com