When rioting erupted on the Ole Miss campus after James Meredith became the University of Mississippi's first African-American student and federal troops moved in to keep order, Silver befriended Meredith.[1] In a speech to the Southern Historical Association in the Fall of 1963, he analyzed the violence with which Mississippi was resisting desegregation. Mississippi was, he said, "a closed society" -- "totalitarian," "monolithic," "corrupt." The speech received widespread media coverage, and he expanded his analysis in a book, Mississippi: The Closed Society (1964). His advocacy of racial change had subjected him to hostility in Mississippi and even an attempt by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to have him fired. That effort failed, but Silver took a job teaching at University of Notre Dame in Indiana.[2]
He taught at Notre Dame from 1965 until 1969. He left Notre Dame to teach history at the University of South Florida until he retired in 1982.[3]
Notes
^Staff Report (September 26, 2011). "UM Tribute Set for Professor James W. Silver". Ole Miss News.
^Carol Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement (2001), pp. 211-219.
^Krebs, Albin (July 26, 1988). "Obituary: James W. Silver, 81, a Professor Who Fought for Racial Equality". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
External links
"Another Mississippi book that made a difference", Carol Polsgrove on Writers' Lives.
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