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Kennedy In 1962, President John F. Kennedy sent the U. S. Army to enforce a court order to admit African American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.

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In 1972, Segregationists tried a number of strategies to stop integration, including public votes against integration and passing a law to close public schools to avoid integration. All of the strategies were eventually defeated.

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