Day 5

Day 5:
Memphis, TN - Oxford, MS



Today, we left Memphis early to head to the University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss, in Oxford, MS. Students spent the day researching in the special collections and archives there, and then we met with Charles Eagles, a scholar who studies the integration of the university, in the late afternoon. The picture above shows the memorial statue on-campus of James Meredith, the first African American to integrate Ole Miss in the early 1960s. Bullet holes from rioting over his integration can still be seen in the columns of the Lyceum.

Miles traveled today: 120
Total miles: nearly 1,000