James Meredith v. University of Mississippi

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/James_Meredith_v._University_of_Mississippi
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Meredith_v._Fair
gptkbp:category Education law case
United States civil rights case
gptkbp:date 1962
gptkbp:enforcedBy federal marshals
intervention by President John F. Kennedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label James Meredith v. University of Mississippi
gptkbp:involves gptkb:University_of_Mississippi
gptkb:James_Meredith
gptkbp:judge gptkb:United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fifth_Circuit
gptkb:United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Mississippi
gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court
gptkbp:legalBasis gptkb:Equal_Protection_Clause_of_the_Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkbp:location gptkb:Oxford,_Mississippi
gptkbp:predecessor further desegregation of Southern universities
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962
gptkbp:result James Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
gptkbp:significance first African American student admitted to University of Mississippi
gptkbp:subject civil rights
desegregation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Constance_Baker_Motley
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5