Fraternity shuts Ole Miss branch
A national fraternity group has closed its University of Mississippi chapter after three members were accused of tying a noose around the neck of a statue of the first black student to enroll in the Southern college that was all-white at the time.
Meredith calls noose on Ole Miss statue ‘foolish’
James Meredith says it was “foolish” for anyone to leave a noose and a Confederate emblem on a statue of him at the University of Mississippi, the school he integrated in 1962.
Ole Miss frat suspended, noose suspects kicked out
A fraternity chapter at the University of Mississippi was indefinitely suspended Friday by its national organization and three of its freshman members were kicked out because of their suspected involvement in hanging a noose on a statue of James Meredith, the first black student to enroll in the then all-white college.
FBI helping with investigation of Ole Miss statue
The FBI on Tuesday was helping investigate who tied a noose around the neck of a University of Mississippi statue of James Meredith, who, in 1962, became the first black student to enroll in the then all-white Southern college.
Our view: Ole Miss should back words with action
Here we go again.
Early Sunday morning, two men placed a hangman’s noose over the head of a statue of James Meredith on the University of Mississippi campus and draped the statue with an old Georgia state flag, which like Mississippi’s current flag, contains a replica of what is commonly known as the Confederate Battle Flag.
Reward for suspects who defaced Ole Miss statue
A $25,000 reward is available for information leading to the arrest of two men involved in defacing the James Meredith statue at the University of Mississippi.