I thought I couldn't die. And I really believed it. I know better now. But I'm glad I didn't know better then. - James Meredith
" "I thought I couldn't die. And I really believed it. I know better now. But I'm glad I didn't know better then.
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James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the Civil rights movement).
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