On September 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi experienced a “mostly peaceful” demonstration.
As with all such protests, it was peaceful until it wasn’t — it became a riot, and a particularly heinous and destructive one.
The New Massive Resistance
by Rich Lowry
Violent mobs have no legitimate part to play in our democratic republic, not in Oxford, Miss., in 1962, not in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2025.
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A demonstrator throws a rock from an overpass at police vehicles on a highway during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., June 8, 2025.
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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