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J-Boy - Children's Book about James Meredith
- Item Number
- 117
- Sold
- 8 USD to mclarkri
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
My Brother J-Boy is written by Hazel Janell Meredith, a younger sister of Civil Rights pioneer, James Meredith. The story is set in rural Kosciusko, Mississippi on their family farm during the Jim Crow south. The author is the mother of RDLN graduate Meredith McGee.
James Meredith attempted to enroll in the University of Mississippi before any other African-Americans had been accepted and was finally admitted under a 1961 court order. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent Federal marshals to protect him, and violence ensued. In 1966, he started a "March against Fear" and was shot by a sniper. Other Civil Rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., continued the march in his name.
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Meredith has written a biography of her uncle James Meredith, which will be published by Praeger soon. Meredith is an entrepreneur who has her own business (Typing Solutions & Resumes, Etc.), through which she also does business development consulting. She also heads her family's investment club. She earned her master's degree from Antioch through RDLN as a recipient of the Billie Jean Young scholarship; her field project was to train community people in redistricting with her Sponsoring Organization, Southern Echo. Ms. McGee formerly worked with the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives, which assists small farmers and helps save Black-owned land.
She is also co-author of Married to Sin, a account of family dysfunction and poverty.
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Donated By:
Meredith Coleman McGee, RDLN Graduate (Photo: r, Received Award fromTuskegee, with RDLN Graduate Alice Paris, now of Tuskegee)
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