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In Memoriam: Cleve McDowell; 1941-1997
On June 5, 1963 Cleve McDowell became the second black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The more famous of the pair, James Meredith, was McDowell's roommate. These two were the university's only black students. Meredith and McDowell were housed in the same room in an otherwise empty dormitory in a section of the Ole Miss campus where there were no other dormitories. When Meredith graduated from Ole Miss in August 1963, the federal...