The Call’s Coverage of James Meredith’s Enrollment at the University of Mississippi in 1962

The drawing above was featured in the November 1962 edition of the Workers Circle national journal, The Call, that covered the events at the University of Mississippi.
What does this image evoke for you?

Below is an excerpt from the article which, while acknowledging President Kennedy was right to send in the national guard, critiqued him for doing it only in the name of “law and order” writing:

The President could muster the power of the Federal government only in the objective name of law and order. But he could also summon in ringing words the moral will of America in behalf of the American idea — “That all men are created equal… that all men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”

In this sense, neither President Eisenhower, in the Little Rock tragedy, nor President Kennedy, in the Mississippi tragedy, rose to the true heights of the occasion. Robert Browning’s memorable line (in the poem Andrea del Sarto) comes to mind “... A man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for!” The President’s grasp was firm — in sending the Federal marshals and the National Guard to Oxford, the law was served and chaos averted; the President’s reach, alas, did not exceed his grasp, and heaven was not touched.