Mississippi

Week of Oct. 5, 1962
"It was recognized as the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil War," reports TIME. Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett stands in the doorway of his state's college board and tells black student James Meredith, "I hereby finally deny you admission to the University of Mississippi."

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