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Lone Negro At Ole Miss Draws States No Jeers
Cleve McDowell becomes the university of Mississippi's only Black student after James Meredith graduation. He registered for fall, is housed in Lea vell Hall, and drew stares but no jeers, as he attended without federal marshals or troops.
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