Multiple choice

Who integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962 and got shot leading a March Against Fear in 1966?

  1. Martin Luther King

  2. Thurgood Marshall

  3. James Meredith

  4. Huey P. Newton
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Explanation

James Meredith was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi in 1962. In 1966, he organized the 'March Against Fear' to encourage voter registration, during which he was shot and wounded by a sniper.

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