United States civil rights leader who led a national anti-discrimination campaign and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)

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Senator Lamar told me that he thought Walthall the ablest military genius of the Confederacy, with the exception of Lee, and, I think, of Stonewall Jackson.

All in all, though, Abram and Mark Jackson were on fairly even footing.

Perhaps Mark Jackson made Abram think just a little deeper about his political ways, and Abram made Mark wonder just where it was he stood in the pecking order.

Edie Williams, Abram Schuster, and Mark Jackson had never meant anything to her.

At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.

John Adams was a great admirer of Andrew Jackson, but the prospect of his adored son winning the highest office was thrilling and a strong reason to stay alive.

It did, and in 1993, he began his anesthesiology residency at UMC in Jackson.

And all this without Jackson being clearly pro- or antilabor, pro- or antibusiness, pro- or antilower, middle or upper class.

In Washington, Bobby Kennedy figured Ross Barnett must by now have had his moment in the sun, so he decided to register Meredith on September 25, not at the Oxford campus, but at the office of the university trustees at the Woolfolk State Office Building in downtown Jackson.

Ross Barnett will be inscribed in the pages of history with Lee, Jackson and Jeff Davis as a great Southerner.

Later in the afternoon, RFK and Barnett seemed to work out a tentative agreement for a decoy plan: Meredith would register quietly at Jackson on Monday while Barnett and Johnson were at Oxford standing heroically at the entrance to the university.

Mansion in Jackson, an exhausted Ross Barnett was in a state approaching total shock.

In Jackson, Governor Barnett ordered all state flags flown at half- mast to mourn the invasion of his state.

If Governor Ross Barnett tried to appear on campus, the army planned to snatch him away from his police escort, pack him off in a helicopter, and fly him back to Jackson.

Ross Robert Barnett was prohibited by law from running for a second term as Mississippi governor, and he returned to private law practice in Jackson in 1964.