article_snippet: The indictment is connected to a February 2014 incident in which a noose and a former Georgia flag, prominently featuring the Confederate battle emblem, were placed on a statue of James Meredith.
article_snippet: Harris, who is white, was an Ole Miss student when which a noose and a former Georgia flag was left on a statue of James Meredith.
article_snippet: Mr Meredith was the first black student to attend Ole Miss in 1962 but has said that the statue of him erected in 2006 should be taken down .
article_snippet: I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect.'
article_snippet: James Meredith said that the James Meredith statue had been used as 'a public relations tool for the powers that be at Ole Miss,' which has continued to see racism (file photo, 2012)
article_snippet: the James Meredith statue was erected in 2006 near the main administrative building at Ole Miss, the Lyceum.
article_snippet: In a 2012 autobiography, James Meredith said University of Oklahoma should destroy the James Meredith statue because James Meredith said University of Oklahoma trivialized James Meredith effort to destroy a system of white supremacy that had long dominated Mississippi, James Meredith native state. '
article_snippet: I have become a piece of art, a tourist attraction, a soothing image on the civil rights tour of the South, a public relations tool for the powers that be at Ole Miss, and feel-good icon of brotherly love and racial reconciliation, frozen in gentle docility,' James Meredith wrote.
highlights_snippet: Noose and former Georgia flag with Confederate symbol hung on statue .
  
highlights_snippet: James Meredith, first black student at Ole Miss, wants statue destroyed .