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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood after registering for classes at the formerly segregated University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1963 June 11

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from the Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 11, 1963, African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood speak to reporters after registering for classes and integrating the university. The clip begins with soldiers standing in the doorway of Foster Auditorium. White people are seen leaving the building; they are followed by the two African American students Malone and Hood. Malone tells a group of waiting reporters that she is glad registration is over, and that her main purpose in coming to the university is to receive an education. Next, Hood indicates that neither he nor Malone will give further press conferences beyond their statements of that day, indicating that he, too has come to the university to study. The two students make their way through the crowd and walk away. Several years previously, in 1956, Autherine Lucy became the first African American student to matriculate at the University of Alabama, after having won a three-year court battle. However, after three days of constant rioting, the university suspended her, purportedly for her own protection; Lucy was later expelled after her lawyers accused University of Alabama officials for conspiring with the rioters. In 1963, federal courts ruled that the university would have to admit Vivian Malone and James Hood. On June 11, governor George Wallace followed through on a 1962 campaign promise to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to preserve segregation in Alabama by standing in the entrance of...
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Jones, Vivian Juanita Malone, 1942-2005Hood, James A
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American College Students
  2. African Americans
  3. Alabama
  4. College Integration
  5. Government
  6. Intervention (Federal Government)
  7. Massive Resistance Movement
  8. Reporters And Reporting
  9. School Integration
  10. Tuscaloosa

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