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James 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.