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Vivian Malone Jones    1942-2005

 

 

 

Vivian Malone and James Hood,

surrounded by national guardsmen and reporters,

enroll at the University of Alabama

on June 11 1963.

 

Photograph: Bettmann/Corbi

 

Vivian Malone Jones

Black student whose enrolment

marked the beginning of the end

of segregation in the US south

G

p. 32

18.10.2005

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/18/
guardianobituaries.usa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vivian Juanita Malone Jones    1942-2005

 

 

Vivian Malone Jones

(...)

came to public attention

as one of the two

black students

whose enrolment

at the University of Alabama

in 1963

was a decisive moment

in America's

civil rights struggle.

 

It remains etched

in the nation's memory,

defying Governor

George Wallace's

infamous

"stand in the schoolhouse door"

to stop integration.

 

At his inauguration

as governor of Alabama

in January that year,

Wallace

vowed to maintain

"segregation forever",

fulfilling the promise

by barring the students.

 

When the moment came,

his willingness to enforce

the pledge proved nominal;

 

a carefully scripted

performance,

choreographed by

the governor's office

and the federal authorities

in Washington,

led by President

John F Kennedy's

attorney general

brother Robert,

allowed Wallace

to state his position,

while avoiding

confrontation.

 

Making the gesture,

however,

catapulted him

on to the national scene

and assured his re-election

as a populist Democrat.

 

In 1996,

two years before his death,

he apologised to Jones

and asked for her forgiveness.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/18/guardianobituaries.usa

 

 

 

 

Black student whose enrolment

marked the beginning of the end

of segregation in the US south

 

Vivian Malone Jones (...)

came to public attention

as one of the two black students

whose enrolment

at the University of Alabama

in 1963

was a decisive moment

in America's

civil rights struggle.

 

It remains etched

in the nation's memory,

defying Governor

George Wallace's

infamous

"stand in the schoolhouse door"

to stop integration.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/18/guardianobituaries.usa

 

 

 

 

Vivian Malone Jones (...)

on a blisteringly hot

June day in 1963

became one

of two black students

to enroll

at the University of Alabama

after first being barred

at the door

by the defiant governor,

George C. Wallace

 

(...)

 

Her entrance to the university

came as the civil rights struggle

raged across the South.

 

On June 12,

the day after

Ms. Jones

and James Hood

were escorted

into the university

by federalized

National Guard troops,

the civil rights leader

Medgar Evers

was shot to death

in Jackson, Miss.

 

On May 30, 1965,

Ms. Jones

became

the first black

to graduate

from the University

of Alabama

in its 134 years

of existence,

earning a degree

in business management

with a B-plus average.

 

The performance

of Governor Wallace,

who stood at the doorway

of Foster Auditorium

flanked by state troopers,

fulfilled

a campaign pledge

stop integration

at "the schoolhouse door."

 

But historians

have written

that his defiance

was scripted

and came with a promise

to federal authorities

that he would be brief

and would soon comply.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/national/14jones.html

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/18/
guardianobituaries.usa

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/
national/14jones.html

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4960645 -
Updated October 15, 2005 4:34 PM ET    Published October 15, 2005 12:00 AM ET

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4958399 -
Updated October 14, 2005 9:35 AM ET    Published October 14, 2005 12:00 AM ET

 

http://www.npr.org/2003/06/11/
1294680/wallace-in-the-schoolhouse-door

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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