JAMES "MEREDITH MISSISSIPPI MARCH FOR FREEDOM" 1966 CIVIL RIGHTS BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$129.80
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
2.25" w/"N. G. Slater" on curl. James Meredith was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University Of Mississippi. Four years later on June 6, 1966 Meredith started a solitary "March Against Fear" for 220 miles beginning in Memphis, TN and planned to end in Jackson, Mississippi to protest racism. Soon after beginning the march he was injured by a gunman during an assassination attempt. On hearing the news, other civil rights activists including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Martin Luther King and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's Stokely Carmichael, decided to continue the march in Meredith's name. Light gray marks in background of paper. Otherwise only light wear. Extremely Fine. An uncommon and important historical button.
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