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Identifier
miles_photo_003
City
Oxford (Miss.); Mississippi
Creation Date
9-1-1962
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Description
Miles' description: A few days later on Tuesday morning (I believe) Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson is shown arriving to turn Meredith back for the second time in Oxford. Driver of the car is Sam Ivy, head of the Identification Bureau of the MHSP. As the lone reporter on University Drive, I asked Johnson if he were there to turn Meredith back. He simply held up some documents which I later learned was the state's Doctrine of Interposition, which the federal courts had ruled was useless. I said do you mind if I take your picture. "Not at all," he said. "That's what Meredith is here for." At that time I heard a voice on the radio saying, "I'm heading them in. Be there in One." I recognized the voice as my friend, D. B. Crockett, another plainclothes MHP; Corresponding Negative, folder 8.
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Meredith, James, 1933-; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; University of Mississippi -- History; Miles, William T.; Photojournalism; Mississippi -- History;
Relational Format
photograph
Extent
8 x 10
Original Format
black-and-white photographs
Original Collection
Bill Miles Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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