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Resources

The following links and information will provide additional insight and perspective for many of the historic events from June 1963 and the 50 years that followed.
The University of Alabama
Websites:
Opening Doors – The University of Alabama
Vivian Malone Jones Commencement Address: The University of Alabama
Malone-Hood Plaza, Autherine Lucy Clock Tower at UA’s Foster Auditorium to be Dedicated
Strategic Diversity Plan
Realizing the Dream

Books and publications:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library
Students, faculty and other researchers interested in the history of The University of Alabama can visit the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library on The University of Alabama campus www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole. The Hoole Library is the repository for the records of The University of Alabama, including the archive of the Crimson White, the Corolla and other student publications. For more information about the library, contact Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, or Clark Center, University Archivist and Curator for Southern History and Life Collections at 205-348-0500.

Other Resources
Websites:
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
National Civil Rights Museum
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum
Alabama Civil Rights Museum Trail
Wallace in the Schoolhouse Door: Marking the 40th Anniversary of Alabama’s Civil Rights Standoff
Vivian Malone Jones Dies at 63
Autherine Lucy Foster
C. Delores Tucker And Vivian Malone Jones
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Wallace’s Schoolhouse Door Speech
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 50 Years Later - NBC Nightly News

Books:
Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ
by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr: A Biography
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama
by Dr. Culpepper Clark
Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement
by Robert Weisbrot
Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
by Peter B. Levy
Student’s Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Civil Rights
by Marcus D. Pohlmann, Linda Vallar Whisenhunt
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation
by Robert D. Loevy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., John G. Stewart
But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
by Glenn T. Eskew

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