Ole Miss - the University of Mississippi - is mentioned in stanza 14. In 1962, the university admitted its first African-American student. What was his name?

In 1962, Robert Kennedy sent 127 federal marshals to the University of Mississippi to accompany James Meredith as he registered and enrolled at Ole Miss. For years later, Meredith made a solo 220-mile march from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi to protest racism in the south.

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