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Negro Educator Attempts Enrollment at Ole Miss
In Oxford Mississippi plainclothes patrolmen escorted Negro professor Clennon King from the University of Mississippi campus after he tried to enter the administration building as students prepared for summer term registration. Officers guarded doors while a crowd gathered. King reportedly left via a back door escorted to a station wagon.
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