Riot, quell the riot. I was not aware of where we were going because the county administration had put a clamp on disclosure. Not until we got to memphis were we aware of our mission. It was such a delicate, uncomfortable effort by our military, and as i often times say, it was an army out of place. It was not our mission. Military police sometimes had the mission to put down domestic disturbances, but they occurred once every hundred years or something to that effect. Clearly not the mission of the marine corps who were present that morning. 19,000 troops. Two units had been given advance notice of what they were doing, and they prepared for it in riot control. Why all of this for one africanamerican student who wanted to get an education at a Brand Name University its because the whole state was in an insurrection from the governors, from the statehouse itself down to the 11yearold who were throwing bricks at us in the street. It was total chaos, total mayhem. Even the mississippi Hi