{"id":7426,"date":"2026-09-30T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:32:04","slug":"james-meredith-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7426","title":{"rendered":"James Meredith &#8211; 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James Meredith enrolled as the first African-American at the then all-white University of Mississippi in 1962<\/strong>. President Kennedy sent federal troops to quell the riots. Three people died, and 50 more were hurt. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/50years.olemiss.edu\/james-meredith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Meredith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Meredith enrolled as the first African-American at the then all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. President Kennedy sent federal troops to quell the riots. Three people died, and 50 more were hurt. Older children could learn more at: James Meredith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4448,1833,5898,1834],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4448","tag-james-meredith","tag-september-30","tag-university-of-mississippi","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23693,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions\/23693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}