http://www.africanpubs.com/americanmenpubs/Apps/bios/1008LottTrent.asp?pic=none
"... No African American students attended the University of Mississippi when Lott first entered the school. During Lott's senior year, on September 30, 1962, Air Force veteran James Meredith, protected by armed U.S. marshals, enrolled at Ole Miss. The small group was confronted by rock-throwing students and non-student protestors in violent demonstrations. By the time the violence ended, two people had been killed and many others injured and arrested.
Lott worked to keep Sigma Nu fraternity members from taking part. At the same time, he used his campus influence to call for peaceful campus integration. "
Wasn't an easy task to keep those boys quiet. He probably got called a lot of the same names (gutless, no-balls, etc.) he gets called here. Could have just avoided the threats and insults and stayed out of the way.
The moral outrage of the firing squad pulling their hair out because the victim is firing back is amazing.