It’s hard for Charles K. Ross to shake his first image of the University of Mississippi. He was watching a televised football game, and the Ole Miss stadium was a sea of Confederate-flag-waving fans. Mr. Ross, who was completing a doctorate on African-Americans in sports at Ohio State University, was appalled. "To see that many flags waving — it felt like very hostile territory," he recalls. That was in 1994, two years before he took a job at the university, where he is now an associate professor of history and director of the program in African-American studies. Today, when he walks across the campus, the signs he sees are far more welcoming.

June 25, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education