[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. MEREDITH, James (b. 1933). Three Years in Mississippi. [Cincinnati, OH: Meredith Publications, 1966]. 8vo. 328 pp. Publisher's white printed wrappers (some rubbing, soiling to wrappers). Fine. PRESUMED PROOF COPY, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, SIGNED BY MEREDITH ON DEDICATION PAGE. Meredith, a prominent civil rights activist, was the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, who was admitted after the intervention of the federal government which prevented his refusal due to race. Meredith's admission triggered the “Ole Miss Riot" in 1962 – the largest invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807. In 1966, Meredith organized the March Against Fear, in which he was shot and wounded by a white sniper (the photo of Meredith wounded on the ground taken by Jack Thornell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1967). After Meredith dropped out of the march due to his wounds, other civil rights leaders took his place (including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stokely Carmichael); the march eventually grew to 15,000 people and is credited with starting the “Black Power" movement.