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The information on these pages was taken from the 2003 Opening Doors archived website.

Planning Committee

James P. Adams Jr.
Carl Bacon
Katie Boyd
Cynthia W. Burton
Cornelius Carter
E. Culpepper Clark
Kathleen P. Cramer
Janet L. Griffith
Calvin Harkness
Emily C. Jamison
Hank A. Lazer
Steve Kent Miller
Samory T. Pruitt, Chair
Amilcar Shabazz
B. Jane Stanfield
William L. Taylor
Cleophus Thomas Jr.
Nikki Tucker
Pat Whetstone
Gwendolyn Stewart Williams

Advisory Members
Autherine Lucy Foster
James Hood
Vivian Malone Jones
John L. Blackburn
Artur Davis
Burt Jones
Willie "Clyde" Jones
Charles Steele Jr.

Event Coordinator
Gaynelle Adams Jackson

Related News Articles

UA, UGA, UM Discuss Race Relations at Videoconference — Dialog, Jan. 26, 2004

UA, UGA and UM to Reflect on 40th Anniversaries of Desegregation, Look to Future at Jan. 13 Videoconference — UA News, December 5, 2003

Opening Doors, Opening Minds — Coverage from Dateline Alabama, the news Web site of the UA College of Communication and Information Sciences

UA honors first blacks to integrate university — The Tuscaloosa News, June 12, 2003

Wallace in the schoolhouse door — National Public Radio, June 11, 2003

Ordinary setting, not so ordinary past ... Coming full circle ... Wallace's legacy through eyes of supporters — Times Daily (Florence), June 11, 2003

Civil rights pioneers talk about forgiveness — The Tuscaloosa News, June 11, 2003

A doorway to a new South — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 11, 2003

Civil rights pioneers gather at Jemison House — The Tuscaloosa News, June 10, 2003

"I wasn't afraid" — Mobile Register, June 9, 2003

'Bama leads in integration now — The Huntsville Times, June 8, 2003

Conscientious white students smoothed way — The Huntsville Times, June 8, 2003

UA's W.S. Hoole Library Celebrates "Opening Doors" with Two Special Exhibits — UA News, June 6, 2003

Essays and Art "Open Doors" for a New Generation Through UA's 40th Anniversary Commemoration — UA News, May 26, 2003

Media, Civil Rights Panelists to Explore how Images from UA Integration were Created, as Part of "Opening Doors" — UA News, May 14, 2003

UA to Honor 40 Pioneers at "Opening Doors" Event — UA News, May 9, 2003

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Keynote UA's "Opening Doors" — UA News, April 17, 2003

UA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Desegregation — UA News, Feb. 12, 2003

James Hood Speaks at University — Crimson White , Feb. 5, 2003 (photo courtesy CW/Luisa Morenilla)

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