Riot: Witness to Anger and Change, by Edwin E. Meek
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Riot: Witness to Anger and Change, by Edwin E. Meek
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A coffee-table-sized photo-history containing 120 photographs, many previously unpublished, of the 1962 riot over the admission of James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, taken by photographer Edwin E. Meek; Introduction by Curtis Wilkie, Afterword by Governor William Winter. On Sept. 30, 1962, when a riot occurred at Ole Miss protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, Edwin Meek, then 22, a staff photographer for the university, stayed up all night taking over 500 photos including exclusive pictures of Meredith attending class. Meek is the Matthew Brady of the crisis, and with this book he has created an amazing document for the ages. (William Doyle, author of An American Insurrection)
Riot: Witness to Anger and Change, by Edwin E. Meek - Amazon Sales Rank: #1578441 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 12.00" w x .75" l, 2.78 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Riot: Witness to Anger and Change, by Edwin E. Meek Review Readers who pick up the large-format book of photographs RIOT: Witness to Anger and Change should be prepared to be stunned and horrified. It graphically ushers the unwary into a world of violence and hate that could only have been captured by someone who was there during the racial madness when James Meredith became the first black student admitted into the University of Mississippi in 1962. The narrative is revealing both in its raw honesty--as captivating as the photographs--and its nuance. It begins with Edwin E. Meek s account. He was a 22-year-old Ole Miss staff photographer when the protest turned violent. He took more than 500 photos throughout that night and the next day, which form the book s basis. The riot began at dusk,Sept. 30, 1962, Meek writes. Bottles flew by me to strike federal marshals. Tear gas canisters were fired into the crowd. Bricks smashed into windshields and cars were set on fire. ... bullets were flying. Snipers were on top of Bryant Hall, the fine arts center, and on the roof of the old Y building firing at the marshals. I counted a dozen bullet holes on the pillars and door facings of the Lyceum. The shots, bricks and mayhem were not at the hands of students, but from thousands of outsiders flooding in. When it was over, two people were dead, hundreds were injured or arrested. But, added journalist and author Curtis Wilkie, who was a student at the time and writes a superb introduction to the book, the reputation of Ole Miss was gravely wounded. RIOT is a well-crafted book that could stand alone with its stunning photography but it is immeasurably amplified by the insightful commentary by witnesses to the cataclysmic events. The photos are especially compelling as snapshots of a time and place that seems incomprehensible today--or, perhaps, in some ways, chillingly not. In the moments before the actual rioting begins, Meek recounts, a student played Dixie, another dressed as a Confederate soldier brandished his sword. Meek writes, It felt like a pep rally until I heard the hiss of a bottle sailing over my head and saw it strike a marshal s helmet. A television station in Jackson was also cheering for action, calling for Mississippians to take up arms and travel to Oxford. The reminiscence of Meek, who went on to become an assistant vice chancellor and professor, for whom the Ole Miss Meek School of Journalism is named, is particularly personal and revealing. I grew up in Mississippi,he writes, a segregated society where African-Americans were virtually enslaved as second-class citizens. When the National Guard showed up at Ole Miss, he adds, they were as conflicted as I was. But I was about to be brought to terms with my previously unexamined racism. Ole Miss alumni or supporters shouldn t expect any sugar coating from RIOT. While the event is not remembered with pride at our alma mater, Wilkie writes, RIOT is an indelible reminder of our past. RIOT should be on the coffee table of every Mississippian, as a reminder of where we came from and where we need to go. And it should not only be displayed, but read, studied and remembered. --Jackson Clarion-Ledger, reviewed by Jim EwingAlthough his book about James Meredith s 1962 enrollment as the first black student at the University of Mississippi is titled RIOT: Witness to Anger and Change, photographer and author Edwin E. Meek was something more than a witness to one of the signature events of the civil rights movement. He documented it, experienced it, was changed by it. Meek, 74, is a former vice chancellor for public relations and marketing and journalism professor at Ole Miss. The university s school of journalism now bears his name. But in September 1962, he was a 22-year-old recent student, a part-time employee of the University s Public Information Office and a part-time journalist for the UPI and the Jackson Daily News. James Meredith was a 29-year-old Air Force veteran whose attempt to integrate the university became a flash-point between state and federal authorities, between the civil rights movement and those who opposed it. The riot that ensued left two dead and a stain on Ole Miss. I came from Tallahatchie, says Meek, referencing the county where a 14-year-old Emmett Till, the same age as Meek, had been lynched and whose murder trial a young Meek had attended. I didn t understand what was going on. I came to Ole Miss with racist attitudes. We all did. As a freshman, I did not know any different. But by 1962, Meek was conflicted about what was happening at his alma mater. As a university employee, Meek helped coordinate the hundreds of visiting media in Oxford, but he was also among them, his insider status giving him better access and also more safety than most. He was thought to be on the right side of the battle over integration, and thus was left alone. Meek took more than 500 photos over the course of three chaotic days in Oxford, from the Ole Miss-Kentucky football game on Sept. 29, where then Gov. Ross Barnett gave a defiant halftime speech, to the clash on campus on Sept. 30, to the first photos of Meredith in a university classroom on the morning of Oct. 1. Now 120 of these photos are collected in RIOT, the first book in a new publishing series by Yoknapatawpha Press and the Meek School of Journalism. The coffee-table-style book includes an introduction by journalist and historian Curtis Wilkie, a fellow Ole Miss journalism student who was also 22 at the time and a witness to the events, and a Recollections Section with a conversation between the two men. Meeks unusual access grants a thoroughness and intimacy to his retelling of the story, and Meredith himself recently called it the best book on the subject. Perhaps most compelling are Meek s rare photos of Meredith in class, surrounded by empty desks and one other student, whom Meek s camera captures starting to leave. There are three of these photos in the book, with more available via the Ole Miss Archives. It was ordered that no one was to interfere (with Meredith s) academic process, Meek remembers. I thought about that and just thought I had to get that photo. Recognized as a university employee by the U.S. marshals, Meek was the only media member who made it into the classroom for what was Meredith s second class on his first day. Meek remembers hiding his Nikon under a trench-coat, even though it was not raining that day, then opening the coat once inside to secretly snap some images. Someone told me years later if I had published them, I might have won a Pulitzer, says Meek. But I was afraid to use them. They stayed in my lock-box for 30 years. The photos were finally unearthed decades later... I never thought I would see the racial racial harmony I see in the [Ole Miss]student union now, he says. Don t tell me we haven t come a long way. We still have a ways to go, but we sure have. --Memphis Commercial Appeal, reviewed by Chris HerringtonOn September 30, 1962, after a lengthy legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, James Meredith was about to enroll as the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. Segregationist opposition was intense, and when a large contingent of U.S. Marshals arrived on campus to protect Meredith, all hell broke loose. A long night of violence, ultimately quelled by several thousand federal troops, left two people dead and scores injured. Riot: Witness to Anger and Change, a stunning collection of photographs by Edwin E. Meek, documents the rioting and the events surrounding it, as well as Meredith s first days as a student. Personal recollections from Meek, journalist Curtis Wilkie, and former Mississippi governor William Winter provide context for the photos, giving a powerful sense of the fraught mood of the time and the very real terror that briefly ruled Oxford. Meek, who would go on to become a journalism professor and Vice Chancellor for Public Relations at Ole Miss, was a graduate student in 1962, working for the university s public-information office. When the violence began, his insider status gave him a great advantage over the dozens of reporters who had come from all over the world to cover Meredith s arrival on campus. These outside journalists were immediately targeted by the white mob and had to lay low. (One of the riot s two fatalities was a French reporter, Paul Guihard, who was apparently shot in the back at close range. No one has ever been charged with the crime.) Photos of the early hours of the unrest confirm Meek s recollection of a gathering with the air of a pep rally. In one shot, a boy dressed up as Johnny Reb, perched on the shoulder of another boy, waves a Confederate flag and smiles for the camera. In another, a gaggle of grinning students surround a trumpeter playing Dixie ...a line of marshals in gas masks, torched cars flaming in the darkness, soldiers arrayed across a street in downtown Oxford. Much of the violence was committed by non-students, including armed reactionaries who had traveled to Ole Miss with mayhem in mind. Many of Meek s photos of James Meredith show a man looking remarkably calm and confident under what must have been extraordinary pressure...Later photos of Meredith in the classroom, sitting alone as white students walk out, reveal more of the pain and anger he must have felt. In lieu of descriptive captions for the individual photos, relevant quotations are scattered through the collection. Meek includes comments, taken from a variety of sources, from all the principal players in the incident, as well as from people like civil-rights leader Medgar Evers. Excerpts from the recorded phone calls of Barnett and President Kennedy accompany pictures of state troopers and U.S. Marshals milling about before the riot. A telling exchange between Meredith and a reporter (quote: I have been living a lonely life a long time. End quote) shares the page with images of Meredith alone in the classroom. Although history lovers might long for the missing documentary details, this impressionistic approach makes for far more powerful storytelling.... But the facts Meek and Wilkie remember are perhaps less valuable than the perspective they provide on what it was like to be a white Mississippian in 1962....Good and evil that seem perfectly clear in retrospect are not necessarily so obvious when they are being played out right in front of you. Sometimes it takes a terrible event--and a person of extraordinary courage like Meredith--to make the truth visible. --Chapter16.org, reviewed by Maria Browning
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About the Author Edwin E. Meek is a former Vice Chancellor for Public Relations and Marketing and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Meek and his wife Becky, both alumni of Ole Miss, provided the financial support for establishment of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. He has published 13 niche magazines, including Oxford Magazine, Satellite Opportunities, PC Opportunities, Mississippi Pharmacist, Restaurant Marketing, Experience Oxford, Nightclub & Bar and Salud. He was instrumental in getting legislation passed to create the Small Business Development Center, an agency that now has its counterpart in every state. He is the founder of the Tupelo Furniture Market that became one of the largest trade show facilities in the nation. He is an Eagle Scout, American Council On Education Fellow, recipient of the Governor's Distinguished Mississippian Award, author of numerous professional articles and is author, or co-author, of three books on the art of Theora Hamblett. His expanding businesses have included an advertising agency, warehouse facilities and most recently New Media Lab LLC, and Hottytoddy.com, an on-line newspaper reaching 1.2 million readers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. RIOT should be in every home, and discussed in every classroom. By Tea I am simply floored that the photographs in the book exist at all. The Kennedy Administration censured the national news photographers during the riots. Ed Meek, then a student, took the only photographs and kept them in a lock-box for 40 years. The photographs show the great danger and loneliness that James Meredith faced in integrating Ole Miss.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Riot: A Remembrance Of The Events That Spurred The End Of Segretation In America By don d ramsey Ed Meek, as a student photographer at Ole Miss, was well-positioned to record the disturbances that occurred when James Meredith was enrolled as the first black student in that school. His fotos and the commentaries illustrate the emotionally charged situation that existed on the campus and in the state in 1962, when the media was not allowed to photograph what happened. In the confines of our home my father, a school teacher, used to say that integration was comimg whether we wanted it or not. I think many closet intellectuals agreed with him, but none of them said so in public where the cry was: NEVER. The year that the Rose Bowl was feuding with the Big Ten Conference, Ole Miss could have had the honor of playing in that event, but the Mississippi legislature passed a law preventing their participation because the opponent (USC) had black players on their team.Now, sometimes the Ole Miss basketball team has all black players on the court. There have been several black all-american players on the football team. When Edwin and I were growing up in Charleston, some 50-odd miles from Ole Miss, never would we have dreamed that our small town could elect a black mayor. yet this has happened, and for the past two years, he has staged a mayor's ball for all the inhabitants. This book makes us realize how far the state has progressed since the days when the segregation laws deprived half of the citizens ofmissippi of their Constitutional rights. Don D. Ramsey
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Book is fine, what I expected By Betsy Pride Book is fine, what I expected. But I was disappointed that it arrived with a crushed corner. Probably needed better packaging.
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