Riot: Witness to Anger and Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 091624279X ISBN 13: 9780916242794

Verlag: Yoknapatawpha Pr, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

On Sept. 30, 1962, when a riot occurred at the University of Mississippi protesting the admission of the first African American student, James Meredith, Edwin Meek, then 22, a staff photographer for the university, stayed up all night taking over 500 photos including exclusive pictures of Meredith in his first class the next day. Meek is the Matthew Brady of the crisis, and with this book he has created an amazing document for the ages. (William Doyle, An American Insurrection)Introduction by Curtis Wilkie, Afterword by Governor William Winter.

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Edwin E. Meek is a former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Relations and Marketing and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Meek and his wife Becky, both alumni of Ole Miss, provided the financial support for establishment of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. He has published 13 niche magazines, including Oxford Magazine, Satellite Opportunities, PC Opportunities, Mississippi Pharmacist, Restaurant Marketing, Experience Oxford, Nightclub & Bar and Salud’. He is the founder of the Tupelo Furniture Market which became one of the largest trade show facilities in the nation and his expanding businesses have included development and operation of the largest food and beverage, hotel, restaurant and hospitality show in the Western Hemisphere, an advertising agency, warehouse facilities and most recently New Media Lab LLC, and Hottytoddy.com, an on-line newspaper reaching 1.2 million readers. An Eagle Scout, he is recipient of the Governor’s Distinguished Mississippian Award, was selected as an American Counsel On Education Fellow and is the author or co-author of four books.

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IT STARTED WITH A holiday air almost like a pep rally, the students curious at first, then resentful at the sudden appearance of federal marshals on the campus. Word spread quickly and several hundred students gathered at the Lyceum building to protest the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Mob mentality grew as the protesters, emboldened by anonymity, realized they outnumbered the marshals. Ed Meek, 22, a staff photographer at the University, began taking pictures. The mob turned on newsmen, beating up reporters and smashing cameras, but because Meek was an Ole Miss staff photographer they left him alone. Thus, he is the only photographer with a sequential body of work covering events before, during and after the September 30, 1962, riot. Meek stayed up all night taking over 500 pictures of angry demonstrators, burned cars, embattled marshals, and national guard and regular army troops arresting rioters and occupying the campus. The next morning he photographed the newly registered James Meredith emerging from the Lyceum, marshals on either side. Defying President Kennedy s orders to respect Meredith s privacy, he sneaked his camera into the classroom and took pictures of Meredith seated at a desk, the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi. In these pages Meek reflects on what Meredith s admission meant to Ole Miss, the state of Mississippi and to him personally. As Curtis Wilkie observes in the Introduction, Ed Meek could not have avoided history even if he wanted to.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yoknapatawpha Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 091624279X
• ISBN 13: 9780916242794
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 147
• Herausgeber: Wells Lawrence
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