![]() That’s where a white man, Aubrey James Norvell, shot Meredith in the head, neck, and back. On his second day, June 6, Meredith crossed the Mississippi border (by this point he’d been joined by a small number of supporters, reporters, and photographers). On June 5, 1966, he began his 220-mile trek, equipped with nothing but a helmet and walking stick. ![]() Meredith’s “March Against Fear” was a protest against the fear instilled in Black Americans who attempted to register to vote, and the overall culture of fear that was part of day-to-day life. Four years after James Meredith became the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, he embarked on a solo walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. Here’s what to know about how the Black power movement started and what it stood for. ![]() Its legacy is still felt today in the work of the movement for Black lives. The movement called for Black Americans to create their own cultural institutions, take pride in their heritage, and become economically independent. That was the case for the Black power movement, an outgrowth of the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s with calls to reject slow-moving integration efforts and embrace self-determination. ![]() But social justice movements have long been accelerated by radicals and activists who have tried to force that arc to bend faster. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous line about the long arc of the moral universe slowly bending toward justice. ![]()
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