Researching James Silver
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1714 people with the Silver surname? In that year Silver was ranked number 2019 for popularity in the UK. |
The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Silver on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Silver and the Silver Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 2899 people with the Silver surname in the UK? Silver is now ranked number 1855 for popularity in the UK. |
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James Silver
James W. Silver (June 28, 1907 – July 25, 1988) was a historian, author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, and professor at the University of Mississippi and later at the University of Notre Dame and the University of South Florida.
When rioting erupted on the Ole Miss campus after James Meredith became the University of Mississippi's first African-American student and federal troops moved in to keep order, Silver befriended Meredith. In a speech to the Southern Historical Association in the Fall of 1963, he analyzed the violence with which Mississippi was resisting desegregation. Mississippi was, he said, "a closed society" -- "totalitarian," "monolithic," "corrupt." The speech received widespread media coverage, and he expanded his analysis in a book, Mississippi: The Closed Society (1964). His advocacy of racial change had subjected him to hostility in Mississippi and even an attempt by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to have him fired. That effort failed, but Silver took a job teaching at University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
He taught at Notre Dame from 1965 until 1969. He left Notre Dame to teach history at the University of South Florida until he retired in 1982.
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