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Review Of Battle Of Ole Miss By Frank Lambert

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The Battle of Ole Miss is a nonfiction book written by Frank Lambert in 2009. He was a student during the time of James Meredith’s time at Ole Miss and narrates this story from a 3rd person omniscient viewpoint. Lambert was a little biased toward desegregation during those times, which was very rare for a white Mississippian because of the massive support for segregation between the blacks and whites after the Civil War.

The Battle of Ole Miss follows the journey of James Meredith who became the first African American to desegregate Ole Miss University. During the time of Meredith’s childhood and early adulthood, Mississippi whites were determined to keep Black Mississippians inferior to them. As it says on page 29 “Colored children received
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