Richard Holmes (b. Chicago, Feb.17,1944) is medical doctor and one of the five young black Mississippians who pioneered the effort to desegregate the major universities of Mississippi as part of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955--1968).
Richard Holmes (b. Chicago, Feb.17,1944) is an American medical doctor; in 1965 he enrolled in the previously segregated Mississippi State University. He was one of five black Mississippians who pioneered the effort to desegregate the major universities of Mississippi as part of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955--1968).