Word: viviane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUSCALOOSA, ALA. The University of Alabama board of trustees filed notice that it would ask the Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to oust newly admitted Negro Students Vivian Malone and James Hood. Meanwhile the two proceeded quietly about their studies, and the U.S. Army announced that it will release 3,100 members of the Alabama National Guard from active duty, leaving only 300 federalized guardsmen at the university...
Last week, in an event of historic contrast with the 1956 episode, Alabama fell too: enrolled at the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama were two Negroes, Vivian Malone and James Hood, both 20. The only opposition was an empty gesture of defiance by Governor George C. Wallace. On the campus, the Negroes encountered no hostile mobs, no shouting, no thrown stones. Instead, they met with smiles and friendly greetings from white students. The Negroes merged into the life of the campus so uneventfully that it almost seemed as if the color of their skins made no difference...
Wallace read off a parting-shot statement and then walked away. Shortly afterward, the two Negroes went into the building and were registered. "Hi, there," a man seated at a desk said to Vivian Malone. "We've been waiting...
...meant Vivian Malone. But as things now stand, the one person who seems most likely to disrupt education at the University of Alabama is the Governor of the state...
...other legal decisions against Alabama segregation were not enough, a U.S. district court in Birmingham ruled that the University of Alabama must accept two Negro applicants for the beginning of the summer session starting June 10. One is a girl, Vivian J. Malone, 20, who plans to go to the main university campus at Tuscaloosa. The other is David M. McGlathery, 26, a mathematician who had petitioned for postgraduate study at the university's Huntsville branch. Alabama's Governor George Wallace immediately announced that the Negroes would get into either Tuscaloosa or Huntsville only by walking over...