James Meredith March Against Fear video footage June 26, 1966. Andrew Young took the podium first. James Meredith sat on the right, beside the podium, on the floor, up front on the make shift stage. MLK and other sat in chairs and history sprang out of the mouths of Black men on the back side of the Mississippi State capital. …THE LAST BIG MARCH DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT