Sunday, June 5th, 1966, civil rights activist James Meredith began a 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis Tennessee to Jackson Mississippi. Meredith, having integrated the University of Mississippi four years earlier, planned the march to challenge the culture of fear, and to encourage more than four hundred thousand African Americans in Mississippi to register to vote considering the Voting Rights Act passed only a year earlier. On the second day of his self-described "walk against fear”, Monday, June 6, 1966, a handful of reporters, photographers and law enforcement officials awaited his arrival in Hernando, Mississippi. On this day, Meredith was shot by Aubrey Norvell with a 16 gauge automatic shotgun three times. He was shot near Highway
