Sixty years ago, James Meredith began walking alone from the Peabody Hotel in Memphis as he began his March Against Fear. He was heading toward the Mississippi Delta to counter the swelling racism that had followed the passage of major rights legislation and to galvanize Black voter registration.
Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch
Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch is a reporting intern at the Mississippi Free Press. He is a junior at Yale University, where he spent two years covering New Haven politics for the Yale Daily News. He has previously reported for WNYC/Gothamist.
