#OnThisDay in 1963, Cleve McDowell became 1st Black student at Ole Miss law school, rooming w/ James Meredith. But university officials expelled him after they caught him with a pistol for self-protection. McDowell became field secretary for Mississippi NAACP.
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On this day in 1963, Cleve McDowell became the first Black American to attend the University of Mississippi School of Law.
