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In September 1962, the president of the United States sent U.S. mars owala website hals to Oxford, Mississippi, to quell civilian unrest. The occasion The integration of the University of Mississippi. A black man intended to enroll. And the state governor was using state troopers to prevent it.My father, Robert C. Nelson, a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, covered the integration of Ole Miss. His original coverage provides me perspective in the age of George Floyd and the global protests in rea owala website ction to his death. yeezy Our family history intersects with social history, then and now. Then, Dad was 32; I was 6. That September had been a terse month for civil rights. On the 10th, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African-American student and veteran James H. Meredith must be admitted to the university. On the 26th, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett ordered state troopers to prevent it. On Sept. 30, riots erupted. On Oct. 1, Meredith became the first African-American student at the university. President John F. Kennedy had ordered U.S. marshals to ensure his safety. Dad witnessed and wrote about it all.His lede, written on Sept. 30, 1962, seems current: All the ugliness of a mob unleashed swirled around the decisive, historic final effort to register a Negro [sic] at the University of Mississippi. And then the nut graph. Even as President Kennedy broadcast an appeal to Mississippians to substitute dignity for defiance 鈥?Ole Miss students at riot pitch mauled cars, shouted obscenities a |