The Jackson City Council voted Tuesday to rename a street in honor of civil rights icon James Meredith.
Griffith Street will be renamed to James. H. Meredith Drive.
Meredith was the first African-American student to be admitted into the University of Mississippi in 1962. His admission caused a riot at the Oxford campus where two people were killed, and dozens more injured.
He graduated in 1963.
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