RIOT : Witness to Anger and Change ( signed )

Edwin E. Meek

ISBN 10: 091624279X / ISBN 13: 9780916242794

Published by Yoknapatawpha Press, Oxford , Miss., 2015

About this Item

1st. Edition 2015 , Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 160 page book. Illustrated with black & white images taking by Edwin Meek back when the federal authorities trying to insert James Meredith onto the University of Mississippi . This copy is also signed by the author/ photographer Edwin E. Meek on the title page scarce signed copy .Condition : Fine Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 101522-I

Bibliographic Details

• Title: RIOT : Witness to Anger and Change ( signed )
• Publisher: Yoknapatawpha Press, Oxford , Miss.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 091624279X
• ISBN 13: 9780916242794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Author
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • U.S. History / Military History / History / Wor...
  • Signed Editions
  • Photography / History / Journalism

About this title

Synopsis

A coffee-table-sized photo-history containing 120 photographs, many previously unpublished, of the 1962 riot over the admission of James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, taken by photographer Edwin E. Meek;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)

About the Author

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.