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Governor George Wallace standing in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 in what became known as the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.]]
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door was an incident that took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on 11 June, 1963. Alabama Governor George Wallace, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood.
The incident helped bring George Wallace into the national spotlight.
Background
On 17 May, 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding the case called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in which the plaintiffs charged that the education of black children in separate public schools from their white counterparts was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education meant that the University of Alabama had to be desegregated.
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Governor George Wallace standing in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 in what became known as the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.]]
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door was an incident that took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on 11 June, 1963. Alabama Governor George Wallace, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood.
The incident helped bring George Wallace into the national spotlight.
Background
On 17 May, 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding the case called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in which the plaintiffs charged that the education of black children in separate public schools from their white counterparts was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education meant that the University of Alabama had to be desegregated. In the years following, hundreds of African-Americans applied for admission, but all were denied. The University worked with police to find any disqualifying qualities, or when this failed, intimidated the applicants. But in 1963, three Blacks with perfect qualifications—Vivian Malone, Dave McGlathery and James Hood—applied, refusing to be intimidated. In early June a federal judge ordered that they be admitted, and forbade Governor Wallace from interfering.
The incident
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