University of Alabama Integration
Background:
On May 16, 1963, a federal district court in Alabama ordered the University of Alabama to admit African American students Vivien Malone and James Hood during its summer session. The court's decision virtually ensured a showdown between federal authorities and Alabama Governor George Wallace who had made a campaign promise a year earlier to prevent the school's integration even if it required that he stand in the schoolhouse door. Despite receiving a federal court injunction barring such a move, Wallace fulfilled his campaign pledge on June 11, when he temporarily blocked the students' entrance by positioning himself before the doorway of Foster Auditorium. Although he ultimately yielded when President Kennedy federalized Alabama's National Guard, the incident earned Wallace a nationwide reputation for white resistance.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
- Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles (University of North Carolina at Greensboro's University Libraries)
- University of Alabama Integration Photographs (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Crowd listening to Wallace outside Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Federal marshals at Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- General Henry V. Graham walking to Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- George Wallace with a man and woman at Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Governor George Wallace in state trooper car, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Governor George Wallace speaking in front of Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Governor George Wallace walking to Foster Auditorium (Photographs)
- James Hood and others walking to Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Law enforcement officers and media, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Man and a state trooper at the University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- Man and woman in the press room at University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Man beside public telephone sign, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Men walking to Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Motorcycle troopers drive down street on the University of Alabama campus (Black-and-white photographs)
- National Guardsman outside building, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Outside Foster Auditorium, double exposed shot (Photographs)
- Parked cars on street on the University of Alabama campus (Black-and-white photographs)
- Partially barricaded street at University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- People outside Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- People sitting on the ground outside Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- The press at Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- The press, law enforcement officers, and others outside Foster Auditorium waiting for Governor George Wallace (Black-and-white photographs)
- Reporter sitting at typewriter inside press room, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Reporters at typewriters inside the press room, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Reporters surround Vivian Malone and James Hood in front of Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- Sign: "U of A Students Main Campus Closed Go to Northington Campus Gym for Identification." (Color photographs)
- State trooper at Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- State troopers behind barricade with "street closed" sign, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Color photographs)
- State troopers on the University of Alabama campus (Photographs)
- Three men walking to Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Photographs)
- Troopers in front of Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Troopers with a car near Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- U.S. Army jeep with soldiers, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Color photographs)
- Vivian Malone and James Hood taking questions at Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- Vivian Malone arriving at Foster Auditorium (Color photographs)
- Vivian Malone in car (mostly blocked by thumb) (Color photographs)
- Vivian Malone, James Hood and others in front of Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- Vivian Malone, speaking into a microphone, and James Hood in front of Foster Auditorium (Color photographs)
- Vivian Malone walking to Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Color photographs)
- Wallace speaking in front of Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Woman outside Foster Auditorium, University of Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress)
- Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 29 - Negro coed leaves court--Autherine Lucy, left foreground, leaves Federal Court here today with her attorneys, Thurgood Marshall, center and Arthur Shores, after court recessed (Black-and-white photographs)
- Telegram. NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins to Herbert Brownell concerning the expulsion of Autherine Lucy, February 7, 1956 (Telegrams)
- University of Alabama students burn desegregation literature during demonstration in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 6 against the enrollment of Autherine Lucy, an African American student (Photographic prints)
- Vivian Malone entering Foster Auditorium to register for classes at the University of Alabama (Negatives (photographic))
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- 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 (Moving images)
- 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 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Eugene "Bull" Connor addressing a White Citizens' Council rally and preparation for the University of Alabama integration in Holt, Alabama, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1963 June 7 (Moving images)