Riot: Witness to Anger and Change

A coffee-table-sized photo-history containing 120 photographs, many previously unpublished, of the 1962 riot over the admission of James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, taken by photographer Edwin E. Meek; Introduction by Curtis Wilkie, Afterword by Governor William Winter. On Sept. 30, 1962, when a riot occurred at Ole Miss protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, Edwin Meek, then 22, a staff photographer for the university, stayed up all night taking over 500 photos including exclusive pictures of Meredith attending class. Meek is the Matthew Brady of the crisis, and with this book he has created an amazing document for the ages. (William Doyle, author of An American Insurrection)

Edwin E. Meek is a former Vice Chancellor for Public Relations and Marketing and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Meek and his wife Becky, both alumni of Ole Miss, provided the financial support for establishment of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. He has published 13 niche magazines, including Oxford Magazine, Satellite Opportunities, PC Opportunities, Mississippi Pharmacist, Restaurant Marketing, Experience Oxford, Nightclub & Bar and Salud. He was instrumental in getting legislation passed to create the Small Business Development Center, an agency that now has its counterpart in every state. He is the founder of the Tupelo Furniture Market that became one of the largest trade show facilities in the nation. He is an Eagle Scout, American Council On Education Fellow, recipient of the Governor's Distinguished Mississippian Award, author of numerous professional articles and is author, or co-author, of three books on the art of Theora Hamblett. His expanding businesses have included an advertising agency, warehouse facilities and most recently New Media Lab LLC, and Hottytoddy.com, an on-line newspaper reaching 1.2 million readers.