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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory June 6, 1966 Meredith was shot during a human rights march
59 years ago today, on June 6, 1966 (April 18, 1966 in the lunar calendar), Meredith was shot during a human rights march. Meredith was cared for on the roadside. When people mentioned the anti-discrimination struggle carried out by black people in the 1960s and 1970s, people thought most of it was Martin Luther King, the most famous leader. However, a huge movement was by no means just the achievements of the leader's personal activities. Many people made important contributions to this end and made heroic struggles to promote the development of their careers. Their names may not be remembered, but they were the backbone of the movement's success. It is precisely because of such a group of blacks who regard the realization of racial equality as their ideal and are willing to sacrifice for this ideal that the anti-discrimination struggle has achieved today's results. On June 6, 1966, James Meredith, the first black college graduate of the University of Mississippi in the United States, set out from Memphis, Tennessee, in order to awaken black people to exercise their voting rights and dispel the terror of black people in life and travel., unarmed, made a long trek back to his hometown of Jackson City, Mississippi. This journey will pass through some of the most remote and racially discriminatory areas in Mississippi, totaling 220 miles. One sultry afternoon, as he was walking on Highway 51, a gunshot was heard and someone in the roadside jungle shouted,"I only want James Meredith!" Meredith was shot multiple short bullets in his body, and the first black man to be admitted to a segregated university lay in a pool of blood on U.S. Route 51. His colleagues rushed him to a nearby hospital. There, surgeons removed shrapnel from his neck, shoulders and back. Immediately after the shooting, police arrested one suspect-a white man in his 40s. He admitted carrying out the ambush but failed to explain his motive. After he was taken to the hospital, 18000 people, including black American leader Martin Luther King, Jr., finally completed the march. On the 25th, after Meredith recovered, he joined the parade again and walked near Jackson. They continue to fight to end racial discrimination. The scene of Meredith getting the first shot, James crawled to the roadside in pain News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1l8k.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.27-13:13] 访问:74
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