People have for certain heard of the way the issue of Civil Rights was handled in the heart of the "deep south" during the time of what is now more commonly referred to as "the movement." It will be fifty years this September 30th that James Meredith's attempt to enroll/register as a degree-seeking student happened. Meredith only wanted to attend University of Mississippi, nowhere did he realize (or intend) that his actions would have such ramifications reaching all the way to both the Kennedy White House and Justice Department and the office of the Governor of Mississippi, the wily Ross R. Barnett; who used every trick up his sleeve to try to prevent the inevitable from occurring.
What happened within the span of (about) seventy-two hours was hard to realize and from the removal of over four decades hard to admit that it had indeed happened. I don't want to give anything away, suffice to say this makes for great reading and even harder to believe only happened just a few weeks BEFORE the Cuban Missile Crisis, the definitive example of "High Noon in the Cold War."