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Posted on 1/30/16 at 1:05 am to beachreb61
Posted on 1/30/16 at 1:05 am to beachreb61
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So Ole Miss caused Wallace to stand in the doorway of UA to stop black students from enrolling? Hell, we are more powerful than the REC and we don't even know it.l
Well... Yeah, actually. You recall the Ole Miss riots of 1962, involving the enrollment of James Meredith. Well, when the Supreme Court ordered UA to allow the admission of Vivien Malone and James Hood, there was a great deal of planning involved to ensure those riots didn't take place in Tuscaloosa. Part of that was the Governor being asked by John F. Kennedy to make an appearance in order to soothe the would-be angry masses. As you'll recall, there were several deaths and hundreds of wounded, including dozens of US Marshalls during the Ole Miss Riots. There was never any intention of preventing those students from attending. It was a big show orchestrated to keep Tuscaloosa from becoming Oxford East. It worked.
This post was edited on 1/30/16 at 1:14 am
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Posted on 1/30/16 at 1:17 am to Tuscaloosa
Whatever makes you sleep at night. He stood in the entrance to block the black students from entering. Don't really care about the coordination. Tell me that the Alabama citizens at the time didn't support that.
This post was edited on 1/30/16 at 1:22 am
Posted on 1/30/16 at 1:26 am to Tuscaloosa
Also a great book for you to read other than "To Kill a Mockingbird". The book is "Brother to a Dragonfly."
Posted on 1/30/16 at 4:24 am to Tuscaloosa
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There was never any intention of preventing those students from attending.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 9:59 am to Tuscaloosa
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here was never any intention of preventing those students from attending.
De Nile ain't just a river in Africa
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