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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Alabama governor Georgia C. Wallace standing in the doorway to prevent registration of African American students at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1963 June 11

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 11, 1963, Alabama governor George C. Wallace stands in the doorway of the auditorium to prevent the integration of the university before receiving and complying with a presidential order to step aside. The clip begins with a crowd standing on the sidewalk leading to Foster Auditorium. Wallace, standing at a podium, appears to be speaking, although his comments are not recorded. Led by Lieutenant General Henry Graham, Alabama National Guard soldiers walk up to the podium and hand the printed presidential order to Wallace. Wallace then walks away from the building, enters a car, and waves as the car drives away. After his departure, African American students James Hood and Vivian Malone are escorted to the building where they will register for classes; two soldiers escort Hood first; then three more soldiers escort Malone. 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...
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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. Alabama. National Guard
  5. College Integration
  6. Federal State Controversies
  7. Government
  8. Government, Resistance To
  9. Intervention (Federal Government)
  10. Massive Resistance Movement
  11. Reporters And Reporting
  12. School Integration
  13. Tuscaloosa
  14. Universities
  15. University Of Alabama

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