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SI.com -- Sports Illustrated Covers: A Historical Record -- Sept. 24, 1962
This old Sports Illustrated cover recently surfaced and gives you an idea of how it was at a football game at Ole Miss until 1990. Sports Illustrated is refusing to sell this cover for unspecified reasons. Also this may be the biggest SI cover curse of allll time, the very week following this cover, the first black student, James Meredith, tryed to enroll at Ole Miss and riots broke out everywhere that shook the university and state for 2 years.

Ole Miss continues struggle with history
From the Daily Mississippian Newspaper, thought it was pretty interesting, Ill give you some highlights of the article

In the 1930s, the University of Mississippi became identified as the "University of the Old South," a label that has been associated with the school ever since. But what the 'Old South' and its symbols actually stand for is an issue mired in controversy, and currently the topic of discussion at Ole Miss.

"Slavery caused the war, but that's not what made these young boys fight the war. This flag is one of the boys who fought the war not for slavery."

Students from Ole Miss attended the Dixiecrat convention in Birmingham, Ala. when the Confederate flag and the song "Dixie" were adopted as official symbols of the party.
One year later, in 1949, the home economics department at Ole Miss made what was known as the "world's largest rebel flag." The 50-yard-long flag was unfurled at the halftime of football games while the band, wearing Confederate uniforms, played "Dixie"

That same year, the Ole Miss annual printed several pictures of the KKK on campus with rebel flags. In protest, the Black Student Union members announced they would burn their annuals on the Lyceum steps.
A group of 1,000 white students brought their flags to the steps to protest the burning, but found that the BSU had canceled its plans. The mob of students then marched to the Phi Beta Sigma house, then located across the streeet from the Oxford Mall, and demanded to see Hawkins. They shouted the chant from 1962, "two, four, six, eight, hell no, we won't integrate."

The name Ole Miss surfaced in 1898 after the annual was named "The Ole Miss." The name is derived from the phrase black slaves called their white female masters in the antebellum period.

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