Vivian Malone Jones, the first black person to gradutate from the University of Alabama, died yesterday at age 63.
Jones is most famous for being escorted to the doors of the school which resulted in (then Alabaman governor) George Wallace’s famous “stand in the schoolhouse door”.
Read the Associated Press article on
CNN
and
London Guardian
More links to Jones:
Opening Doors
“The Schoolhouse Door” — Forty Years Later
Kennedy Library Draws Boston Public School Teachers to Six-Day Civil Rights Institute
Wallace in the Schoolhouse Door
Vivian Malone Jones: Leading the way
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 