The University of Mississippi dedicated the 2002 -2003 academic year to the 40th anniversary of Dr. James H. Meredith's enrollment in the University. As part of this celebration, students and faculty recorded oral histories with former students, faculty, towns people, lawyers, governmental officials, and military personnel who were involved in the events surrounding Meredith's entrance to the University.
DVD viewing copies are available for all the interviews. Those with links are available online to stream using the Windows Media Player.
Harold M. &Happy" Antwine
Student at the University of Mississippi, Member of the Local National Guard
View the oral history online using the Windows Media Player.
Kathleen Armstrong
Husband in National Guard, Visited Oxford
Ouida Barnett Atkins
Daughter of former Governor Ross Barnett
Gary B. Baker
503rd MP, PFC
Martha Aldridge Baty
Student at the University of Mississippi
Judge Neal Biggers
Law Student at the University of Mississippi, President of Judicial Committee
Gerald Blessey
Student at the University of Mississippi, Associated Student Body Cabinet Member
Charles M. Jr. Bolen
Freshman Student at the University of Mississippi, Operations Officer 2nd Battle - Group, 23rd Inf, 2nd Inf. Div.
Bobby Boyd
Sophmore at the University of Mississippi, Football Player
Emmett Chassaniol
Student at the University of Mississippi, Member of the Greenwood, MS National Guard
Sibyl McRae Child
Senior Student at the University of Mississippi
Charles H. Doughty
503rd MP
William Doyle
Author of An American Insurrection
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Civil Rights Leader, Wife of Medgar Evers
View the oral history online using the Windows Media Player.
Murry C. "Chooky" Falkner
Troop commander of the Oxford National Guard
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Cy Faneca
Sophmore Student at the University of Mississippi
Henry T. Gallagher
Officer in the US Army Military Police Pattalion (116th MP), James Meredith's Personal Security Officer
Donald E. George
Company B, 503rd MP
Karl David Gottschalt
Sophmore Student at the University of Mississippi
Gene Gratz
Communications Officer, 108th Armored Calvalry Regiment, Tupelo
Reverend Duncan M. Gray, Jr.
Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford Mississippi, 1957-1965
Lewis Guy
Student at the University of Mississippi
Ira B. Harkey, Jr.
Owner and Editor of the Pascagoula Chronicle, Pulitzer Prize winner
Robin Reed Hendrickson
Senior Student at the University of Mississippi
Reverend Arthur Herod
Pastor, working for the city of Oxford when Meredith enrolled in the University
Lloyd Gerald Hopkins, MD
Doctor in Oxford, Mississippi
John M. "Monty" Horne, Sr.
Gave a Student from his Hometown a Ride Back to Oxford, worked for Core of Engineers in Batesville, MS
Sterling Gray Jackson, Jr.
Senior Student at the University of Mississippi, Vice President of the Associated Student Body
Ben D. Jones
Football Coach
Cecil B. Jones, Jr.
Senior Student at the University of Mississippi, Member of Student Judicial Council
Nicholas D. Katzenbach
Assistant Attorney General, 1961-1962; Deputy Attorney General, 1962-1964; Acting and later U.S. Attorney General, 1964-1966; Under Secretary of State, 1966-1969, in Lyceum Building on the Night of the Riot
G. Ray (George Raymond) Kerciu
Art Professor at the University of Mississippi, had Meredith over to his House Regularly, 1st Year of Teaching at the University, Arrested for a Show of his Art Work on Campus
Nancy Koehler
Freshman Student at the University of Mississippi
Brenda Rush Lee
Freshman Student at the University of Mississippi
Douglas B. Lewis
Student at the University of Mississippi, Editor of the Ole Miss Yearbook
Susie Marshall
Oxford Resident
Frank Mash
Riot Control September 30, 1962
James D. McNew
503rd MP
Arthur C. Meredith
James Meredith's Younger Brother
James Meredith
First African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi
Bill Minor
Reporter and Columnist for the New Orleans Time-Picayune
Richard A. Mitchell
716th MP, at University of Mississippi at the end of Meredith's Year at School, Member of Security Surrounding Meredith (the "Peanut Patrol")
Sidna Brower Mitchell
Student at the University of Mississippi, Editor of the Daily Mississippian
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Rebecca Larche Moreton
Graduate Student, Taught at the University of Mississippi
Charles Moore
Photographer, Photos of the Riot published in Life Magazine
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Constance Baker Motley
James Meredith's NAACP Attorney
Jimmie E. Robinette
503rd MP
Penny Ray Sisson
Student at the University of Mississippi
David E. Smith
US Marshall
Robert F. Smith
Son of Reverend Wofford K, Smith, the Epsicopal Chaplain in Oxford
Jim Symington
Robert Kennedy's Administrative Assistant
Willie B. Tankersley
Driver for University of Misssissippi's Chancellor J.D. Williams
Clark Hairston Taylor
Senior at the University of Mississippi
Jay A. Travis, IV.
Student at the University of Mississippi
Lucy C. Turnbull
Assistant Professor of Classical Archeology, Active Member of the University of Mississippi Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Fred Villella
503rd MP
Gerald Walton
Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi
Miriam Wilson Weems
Senior at the University of Mississippi
Curtis Wilkie
Student at the University of Mississippi
Richard B. Wilson, Jr.
Law Student at the University of Mississippi, President of the Associated Student Body
William Winter
Former Governor of Mississippi (1980-1984)
Malcolm T. Yawn
108th Armored Calvalry Regiment