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James Meredith, the first black student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi, hasn’t shunned the university but he isn’t taking part in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his enrollment there. (Associated Press)
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James Meredith, the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, speaks to an audience at a reading at a Jackson, Miss., bookstore, on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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An artist's rendering released by the University of Mississippi shows the Rebel Black Bear. The school announced on Thursday that students at the school have picked the Rebel Black Bear as their new mascot. (Associated Press)
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In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Mark Camarigg, publications manager for Living Blues magazine talks about the influence of early bluesman Charley Patton at a blues exhibition at the J.D. Williams Library on the University of Mississippi campus, in Oxford, Miss. Living Blues magazine is celebrating 40 years in the business. The magazine devoted to covering the African-American blues tradition has been owned by the University of Mississippi since 1983, but it got its start in Chicago, where Jim O'Neal and other blues lovers borrowed $300 to publish the first issue. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
