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This article is about a historical event in the United States of America. For the Band March Against Fear see March Against Fear (Band). On June 5, 1966, James Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear for 220 miles from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, to protest against racism. Soon after starting his march he was shot by a sniper with birdshot, injuring him, but not killing him. When they heard the news, other civil rights campaigners, including SCLC's Martin Luther King, SNCC's Stokely Carmichael, Cleveland Sellers and Floyd McKissick, as well as the Human Rights Medical Committee and other civil rights organizations decided to continue the march in Meredith's name. Ordinary people both black and white came from the South and all parts of the country to participate. They slept on the ground outside or in large tents, and were fed mainly by local communities.
   On the early evening of Tuesday June 16, 1966, when the march arrived in Greenwood, Mississippi and tried to set up camp at Street Black High School, Carmichael was arrested. Carmichael was held for several days and then rejoined the march at a local park where they'd set up camp and were beginning a day-time rally. According to civil rights historian David J. Garrow's Pulitzer-Prize winning Bearing the Cross (page 481), an angry Carmichael took the speakers platform and delivered his infamous "Black Power" speech. SNCC's Black Power slogan was now competing with SCLC's "Freedom then" slogan.
   In Canton, Mississippi the march was attacked and tear-gassed by the Mississippi State Police joined by other police agencies. Several marchers were wounded, one severely. Human Rights Medical Committee members conducted a search that morning looking for unwounded marchers.
   When the march stopped at Tougaloo College before entering Jackson it was entertained by James Brown and other musicians.
   By June 26th when the march entered Jackson Mississippi, it was estimated to be 15,000 strong. Its passage was warmly welcomed in the black neigborhoods and by some whites. However, many whites jeered and threatened the marchers, others simply stayed indoors.
   After hospital treatment Meredith rejoined the Band March Against fear on June 25, 1966. The following day, the march arrived in Jackson.

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