He's 90 yrs old today, and in the pic below James Meredith greets a friend with a black power salute as he takes a coffee break at a north Jackson, Miss., grocery store.
As for him being part Choctaw, here is the paragraph I've read in your wiki article:
"""the Choctaw were among the Five Civilized Tribes, who adopted some of their ways. They transitioned to yeoman farming methods, and accepted European Americans and African Americans into their society.""""
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