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The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War
-Tejano: A texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent.
-Annex: To add a territory to one's own territory.
-Decree: Official order.
-Barricade: To black off.
On May 31, 1961, Meredith, with backing of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging that the university had rejected him only because of his race, as he had a highly successful record of military service and academic courses.
They only had to defend their land. The south also had great military generals compared to the north in the civil war.