American civil rights advocate whose application to the segregated University of Mississippi prompted a riot (1962) when state officials defied federal orders to allow him to register. |
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British writer of novels, such as The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), and poetic works, including Modern Love (1862). |
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