Presents the history of the efforts to integrate the University of Mississippi, describing James Meredith's struggles to become its first African-American stude

When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than a

Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest

The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. I