James Meredith looks at his would-be assassin (extreme lower left in bushes) after being shot on a road near Hernando, Mississippi while leading a March Against Fear

Enter Boycotted School: Five black youths, accompanied by several adults, arrive at formerly all-white Woodlawn High School in Plaquemines Parish

Former black militant leader H. Rap Brown (above) and three co-defendants were convicted of the holdup of a New York City bar

New Orleans police face a crowd of taunting blacks as they move into the Desire Street Housing Project in New Orleans to evict black militants holding up in an apartment

Black militant H. Rap Brown is escorted to federal court in New Orleans for resentencing on a federal gun control conviction

Segregationist Leander Perez, Sr., President of the Plaquemines Parish Council, said he will defeat the Justice Department's attempt to desegregate schools in his parish, New Orleans

Police frisk young black youths lined up against a fence. They were arrested following a shootout between police and Black Panthers in New Orleans.

Byron De La Beckwith, Jr. smiles as he awaits the verdict in his trial in New Orleans on a federal firearms violation

Former POW Lt. Colonel Bruce Seeber of West Monroe, Louisiana reaches for his wife Jane after arriving at Keesler Air Force Base at Biloxi, Mississippi

Jack R. Thornell with the camera he used to record James Meredith and his assailant at the time Meredith was shot. Thornell just won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for news photography for that image.

Black Bishop Harold R. Perry emerges from historic St. Louis Basilica in New Orleans, where he was consecrated during ceremonies today. He is the nation's only black Roman Catholic bishop.

Florida Governor Claude Kirk arrives at Federal Court in New Orleans. He has motions in hand urging the court to block ordered desegregation for Manatee County schools.

Three defendants named in a Justice Department suit that seeks to enjoin the Ku Klux Klan in Bogalusa, Louisiana leave Federal court in New Orleans

An unidentified white man is ushered into a police car by officers after he waved a piece of metal at black marchers during a demonstration in Bogalusa, Louisiana

Leander Perez Sr., segregationist and President of the Plaquemines Parish Council, vowed in New Orleans to defeat the Justice Department's attempt to desegregate schools in Plaquemines Parish

Mississippi National Guardsman push a stalled jeep in Natchez, Mississippi. Some 600 guardsmen patrol around the clock, hoping to head off any serious racial clashes

A black boy and girl walk down the entrance to Grenada High School under the protection of the Mississippi Highway Patrol

Devours Nix is escorted by Federal agents after his arrest on Civil Rights charges stemming from the slaying of black leader Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr.

Alton Wayne Roberts, one of seven men convicted of conspiracy in the deaths of three Civil Rights workers, gestures to news photographers as he leaves a motions hearing in Jackson, Mississippi.

Alton Wayne Roberts, a defendant charged in Civil Rights slayings, exchanges comments with cameraman Laurens Pierce after they scuffled outside the Federal Building in Meridian, Mississippi

Fayette, Mississippi. Top: banner across a highway entrance asking for passersby to shop. Bottom: Charlie Montgomery, Jr. points to a boycott sign he painted on his store, hoping to boost business from white buyers.

Sergeant Wallace Miller of the Meridian Police waves to newsmen. He testified that he was a former Klan member who sold information about the slaying of three Civil Rights workers to the FBI.

Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price( left) enters the Federal Building in Meridian, Mississippi. A Federal judge is hearing motions in connection with the slayings of three Civil Rights workers.

Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price waited all day to testify before a federal grand jury at the Federal Building in Biloxi, Mississippi

Yale University graduate student Bruce Payne tells the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Jackson that he was beaten by three white men in Port Gibson, Mississippi while working on the freedom ballot

Former Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey, now a security guard, says the FBI kept him from getting a new start after he was acquitted in the deaths of three Civil Rights workers

Panther headquarters during an exchange of gunfire with police in New Orleans

James Meredith told a press conference in New Orleans that black people will have to get their own house in order to improve their situation in this country

Framed between the mules that pulled a wagon during the march, Reverend Ralph Abernathy gives a pep talk to volunteers for the Poor People's Campaign

Fayette Mayor Charles Evers is the first black person elected mayor of a biracial town in Mississippi since Reconstruction

Fayette Mayor Charles Evers questions a city matter during the new administration's first town council meeting

Mayor Charles Evers testifies during a hearing for former Ku Klux Klan leader Dale Walton. Walton is charged with the attempted murder of Evers.

New Orleans police face a crowd of taunting blacks as they move into the Desire Street Housing Project to evict black militants

Mrs. J. W. Wright looks at a globe showing the Soviet Union after Moscow reported that her Air Force husband defected there

James Meredith revisits the University of Mississippi ten years after he became the first black student to register

James Meredith arrives in Canton, Mississippi to complete his 11-day March Against Fear in Mississippi

A Mississippi Highway Patrolman drives past James Meredith during his march down U.S. Highway 51, near Batesville, Mississippi

Two black girls stroll past a long line of Mississippi National Guardsmen near the state capitol in Jackson

One-year-old Candice Thornell of New Orleans pets President Johnson on the chin via the television during his State of the Union message

Vice President Spiro Agnew exchanges smiles with a black doorman as he leaves the Royal Orleans Hotel in the French Quarter

Mississippi Attorney General A. F. Summer reacted with disbelief after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave 30 school districts a deadline to implement effective desegregation

James H. Williams with newsmen in New Orleans, discussing a report outlining the failures and frustrations of desegregation in all Louisiana

FBI agent Henry Rask enters an elevator at the federal building in Jackson, Mississippi, where a grand jury is probing the deaths of three Civil Rights workers

Neshoba County Sheriff Deputy Cecil Price holds the Meridian Star as he awaits the verdict for the murder of three Civil Rights workers in Meridian, Mississippi

Meridian Police Sergeant Wallace Miller leaves federal court after testifying that as a former Klan member, he sold information to the FBI about a Klan conspiracy in the deaths of three Civil Rights workers

Students at Tulane University in New Orleans mix it up with an anti-war demonstrator who attempted to block marching ROTC cadets during a drill