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    Jun 12, 2020 1 minute

    1966

    hen activist James Meredith began his March Against Fear on June 5, he intended to walk solo from Memphis, reported that after he was shot and hospitalized on his second day of marching, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael continued the march on Meredith’s behalf. On June 26, the marchers, now numbering over 15,000, arrived in Jackson. This remains the largest civil rights march in Mississippi history.

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