Segregation in higher education -- Alabama

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Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.

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Documents, interviews, and source material used by Camille Elebash,in co-producing with Joe Terry, the documentary George Wallace: A Politician’s Legacy.

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Material related to the 1963 integration of The University of Alabama by Vivian Malone and James Hood.

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Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.

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Court documents dealing with a suit brought by Autherine Lucy and Polly Anne Myers against The University of Alabama, as well as an invitation to her 1956 wedding and a newspaper clipping written when she graduated from UA with her master's degree in elementary education.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a typed letter signed by Alabama Attorney General Richmond M. Flowers, dated June 17, 1963, on official State of Alabama letterhead, along with the retained carbon copy of a May 4, 1963, letter from a Georgia newspaper editor. The editor’s letter commends Flowers for his outspoken opposition to Governor George Wallace’s segregationist policies and his commitment to lawful desegregation of public institutions, specifically referencing Flowers’ condemnation of...