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Civil rights activist held for mental health questioning after attempting to enroll at all-white university.

Date: 1958

The Story of Disability Justice
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A Black pastor and civil rights activist, Clennon W. King Jr., is arrested and held for mental health questioning after attempting to enroll in the University of Mississippi, on the grounds that any Black man "who tried to enter Ole Miss must be crazy."

King is confined to a mental hospital for twelve days before a panel of doctors establish the activist's sanity and he is released.