On this day in 1963, Cleve McDowell became the first Black American to attend the University of Mississippi School of Law.
On this day in 1963 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 5, 2024 JUNE 5, 1963 Cleve McDowell Arrives on campus at the University of Mississippi In 1963. Cleve McDowell became the first Black American to attend the University of Mississippi School of Law. He and James Meredith roomed together on campus. But university officials expelled him after they caught him with a pistol for self-protection.
He and other civil rights leaders argued that unpunished killers from the civil rights movement should be punished, just as Nazi war criminals had been. He died in 1997.This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.The stories of investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have helped put four Klansmen and a serial killer behind bars.
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