The Man Who Kept Walking to Class

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith walked into the registrar's office at the University of Mississippi and enrolled as its first Black student. The night before, a riot had torn through the campus in Oxford, leaving two dead, hundreds injured, and the air still sharp with tear gas. President Kennedy had deployed thousands of federal troops to enforce a Supreme Court order guaranteeing Meredith's right to attend.…