James Meredith’s March Against Fear Turns 60 as New Voting Rights Battles Loom in Mississippi
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.
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