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2 unusual facts about Ross Barnett


Ross Barnett

In 1963, Barnett tried to prevent the men's basketball team of Mississippi State University from playing an NCAA Tournament game against the racially-integrated team from Loyola of Chicago.

On the night before the Ole Miss riot of 1962 protesting Meredith's entry to the university, Barnett gave his famous fifteen-word "I Love Mississippi" speech at the University of Mississippi football game in Jackson.



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