Flickr/pingnews.com The Ole Miss Riot of 1962 James Meredith, a Black Air Force veteran, applied to the all-white University ...

Water-skiing accident at Ross Barnett Reservoir sends one to hospital Kate Middleton’s Gesture at Surprise Engagement Is ...

(The Center Square) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday he plans to sue the Trump administration over its deployment of the state’s National Guard to Los Angeles.

To do the job, it has plenty of political muscle —Governor Ross Barnett, his lieutenant governor and the attorney general are among the members—and ample funds, from a two-year budget of $350,000.

Funeral services were held for the man who had once advised Mississippi’s Governor Ross Barnett. But Cates had fooled them all. A year after Cates was believed to have died, authorities ...

Carlson said his dedication to keeping the WMU appointment was significant. “Both Ross Barnett, the governor of Mississippi, and Dr. King were both trying to visit a lot of college campuses.

Last week Governor Ross Barnett pardoned Kennard, who has cancer. Said Barnett: “They don’t give him much longer to live. He has a good record at the penitentiary, and under the circumstances ...

George Frazier is a man of muscular opinions. To him, Harry Belafonte is “America’s number one slave”; Mississippi’s Governor Ross Barnett is a “son of a bitch”; Roger Maris is a ...

In Mississippi, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett did interfere and regretted the consequences.

“That’s news to me.” exclaimed Mississippi’s Governor Ross Barnett. “I hadn’t even dreamed of it.” Barnett had just been informed that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ordered ...

In 1962, then-Gov. Ross Barnett, who had been given the authority by the Legislature to select the state’s textbooks, tabbed John K. Buttersworth’s “Your Mississippi” as a Mississippi ...

When, in 1962, federal marshals were preparing to escort James Meredith to the University of Mississippi, thus integrating the all-white school, Gov. Ross Barnett told a nearby crowd that Ole Miss ...