Ole Miss' Integration 50th anniversary Pictures Ole Miss' Integration 50th anniversary In this Oct. 1, 1962, photo, James Meredith, back center, is escorted by federal marshals as he appears for his first day of class at the previously all-white University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Miss. That same school now celebrates the 50th anniversary of this painful act that caused rioting and deaths at the north Mississippi campus at the time of the integration. Credit: AP Photo, file