![]() ![]() At a rally towards the end of the march, Stokely Carmichael first publicly said "Black Power" in a speech urging self determination and Black pride. By the end of the march on Jthe number of marchers had risen to approximately 15,000 in Jackson, Mississippi making it one of the largest marches in history for that area. After the shooting, several major civil rights activists and organizations including: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) responded in the form of continuing the walk in honor of Meredith. The Deacons for Defense and Justice served as an armed escort along the way. ![]() Shortly after beginning the march he was shot by James Norvell, a white gunman. ![]() James Meredith and the March Against FearĪctivist James Meredith, the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, began a solitary walk on June 6, 1966, intending to walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi to call attention to racism and continued voter discrimination in the South. ![]()
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