James Meredith is a shown a magazine featuring Jack Thornell's Pulitzer prize-winning photograph of when Meredith was shot during his March Against Fear.

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is a trailblazer in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1962, he became the first black American student admitted to the University of Mississippi, following an intense legal battle in the federal courts. In 1966, Meredith planned a solo 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi to highlight continuing racism in the South and to encourage voter registration after passage of the Voting Rights Act. On the second day, he was shot by a white gunman and suffered numerous wounds. Leaders of major organizations vowed to complete the march in his name after he was taken to the hospital. During his recovery, more people from across the country became involved as marchers. Meredith rejoined the march, and when he and other leaders entered Jackson on June 26, they were leading an estimated 15,000 marchers in what was the largest Civil Rights march in Mississippi.

Donated to the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College by Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg on June 2, 2021.

On verso: manuscript title, date stamp and agency stamp.

Photograph P2021.9.29 is visible in two other photographs in this collection. It is on the front page of a newspaper visible in P2021.9.49, and it is a two-page spread in a magazine visible in P2021.9.52. Additionally, P2021.9.53 is an image of James Meredith getting his wounds bandaged.

Ferrotyped prints are processed in such a way that they are shiny. The print has a sensitive surface, usually thinner, because it was put through a press while still wet.

Ferrotyped prints have a sensitive surface, usually shiny and thinner, because they are put through a press while still wet. Ferrotyping makes the surface of the photograph smoother. Light does not scatter as much on a smoother surface, so this increases contrast. That makes ferrotyped images better for press photography.

This object has the following keywords:

• Attempted murder
• Aubrey James Norvell
• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Discrimination
• Hate
• Hate crimes
• Injustice
• Jack Thornell
• James Meredith
• James Meredith
• Magazines
• March Against Fear
• Pulitzer Prize
• Shootings
• Students
• University of Mississippi

• Overall Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 8 in. (29.85 x 20.32 cm)