James Meredith

One year later, as Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights activists -- including myself -- completed James Meredith's march from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi after Meredith was injured by a sniper, David and Carolyn French joined in using their Dodge Camper as a makeshift ambulance for his medical team.

Marian Wright Edelman: Dr. David French: Pioneering Physician Marian Wright Edelman 2011

One year later, as Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights activists -- including myself -- completed James Meredith's march from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi after Meredith was injured by a sniper, David and Carolyn French joined in using their Dodge Camper as a makeshift ambulance for his medical team.

Marian Wright Edelman: Dr. David French: Pioneering Physician Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Bilbo of Mississippi, who kept blacks from voting, and Ross Barnett, who denied James Meredith, an African-American, admission to the University of Mississippi.

David A. Love: It's the Old South vs. the New South David A. Love 2012

One year later, as Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights activists -- including myself -- completed James Meredith's march from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi after Meredith was injured by a sniper, David and Carolyn French joined in using their Dodge Camper as a makeshift ambulance for his medical team.

Marian Wright Edelman: Dr. David French: Pioneering Physician Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Bilbo of Mississippi, who kept blacks from voting, and Ross Barnett, who denied James Meredith, an African-American, admission to the University of Mississippi.

David A. Love: It's the Old South vs. the New South David A. Love 2012

Bilbo of Mississippi, who kept blacks from voting, and Ross Barnett, who denied James Meredith, an African-American, admission to the University of Mississippi.

David A. Love: It's the Old South vs. the New South David A. Love 2012

Bilbo of Mississippi, who kept blacks from voting, and Ross Barnett, who denied James Meredith, an African-American, admission to the University of Mississippi.

David A. Love: It's the Old South vs. the New South David A. Love 2012

I eventually chose the story of James Meredith, who, in 1962, after a gruelling campaign of bureaucratic warfare, became the first black American to register at the University of Mississippi.

I predict a riot 2011

Bilbo of Mississippi, who kept blacks from voting, and Ross Barnett, who denied James Meredith, an African-American, admission to the University of Mississippi.

David A. Love: It's the Old South vs. the New South David A. Love 2012

• In a collection of expected highlights in the arts in 2011, mention was made of the story of James Meredith, the first black student to enrol at the University of Mississippi, not Missouri as we had it So much to look forward to, 3 January, page 2, G2.

Corrections and clarifications 2011