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Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
James Meredith
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James Meredith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: June 25
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Kosciusko
Mississippi
James Howard Meredith
James H. Meredith
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