# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-meredith-q5040
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:24:31.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-meredith-q5040"
name: "James Meredith"
slug: "james-meredith-q5040"
description: "James Howard Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. The admission of Meredith ignited the Ole Miss riot of 1962 where Meredith's life was threatened and 31,000 American servicemen were required to quell the violence – the largest ever invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807."
tagline: "American political activist & writer (1933-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Meredith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1933-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.44
  momentum:             0.5809304294651677
  historical:           16.809784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 73
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580588/"
    handle:    "nm0580588"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jamesmeredithonline.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جيمس ميريديث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس ميريديث (محامى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Howard Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B8"
    title: "Τζέιμς Μέρεντιθ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջեյմս Մերեդիթ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Howard Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジェームズ・メレディス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Мередит, Джеймс (правозащитник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2102587"
    title: "James Meredith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump