The battle of Ole Miss was another civil rights encounter for African Americans that transformed the United States. With racial stereotypes prevailing harshly in the south, and particularly in Mississippi in this case, living a normal life as an African American was doable, to an extent. Frank Lambert, in the book “The Battle of Ole Miss, Civil Rights v. States’ Rights”, writes of living in Mississippi at this time, “African Americans were accepted, tolerated, and sometimes befriended, as long as they stayed in their place.” Though that was not near equal, it was a start, but that start quickly diminished when Ole Miss closed, but only to African Americans. In the meantime general racism was on the rise again in Mississippi, jobs and wages