A half-century later, students at the University of Mississippi reckon with the past

Many a Black history lesson includes the story of James Meredith, the man who integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962. But that wasn't the end of efforts to dismantle entrenched segregation on the college campus most associated with the Old South.

The climate was like the desert,' says Linnie Liggins Willis, who started at Ole Miss in 1967. She describes a sense of isolation for Black students. 'We would associate and cling to each other because we didn't have the opportunity to really interact with the other students on campus.

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