Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

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Autherine Lucy, February 1956. (Courtesy of W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) The weekend mobs, Saturday, February 4, 1956. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) The Monday morning mob, February 6, 1956. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) Buford Boone, editor of the Tuscaloosa News. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) Dean of women Sarah Healy. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) University of Alabama President O. C. Carmichael, 1953–57. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) Special assistant to the president/administrative vice president Jefferson Bennett. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and University of Alabama President Frank Rose. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) University of Alabama dean of men John Blackburn. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) Vivian Malone and James Hood registering for class, June 11, 1963. (Courtesy of the Tuscaloosa News) Governor George Wallace faces off against Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, June 11, 1963. (Photograph by Warren K. Leffler. Courtesy of the U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-04292) University of Alabama student Vivian Malone, summer session 1963. (Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) March to the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse, April 23, 1964. (Courtesy of the Tuscaloosa Sheriff ’s Department) Police Chief William Marable (front left) in front of First African Baptist Church. (Courtesy of the William Marable II Family) Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Police Chief William Marable, and Ethel Kennedy. (Courtesy of the William Marable II Family) Reverend T. Y. Rogers and Police Chief William Marable (background), June 10, 1964. (Courtesy of the William Marable II Family) Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy speaking at the University of Alabama, March 21, 1968. (Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Collection) Reverend T. Y. Rogers (front left), Andrew Young (behind Rogers), and Reverend Jesse Jackson (front right) serving as pallbearers for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 9, 1968. (Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Collection) ...