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Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. Coordinates: 33°12′29.2″N 87°32′38.4″W. 1963 protest against racial integration of schools in Alabama. Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. Part of the civil rights movement. Attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, Governor of Alabama George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium ...
Pro-Palestinian protest at University of Alabama, May 1, 2024. The pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Alabama took place on May 1 from 4 to 6:30pm at the UA Student Center. [73] Hundreds of protesters showed up on the pro-Palestinian side, with around a hundred of so counter-protesters holding Israeli and American flags. [73]
Arrested. 3,100 protesters [19] Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses started in 2023 and escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wider Israel–Hamas war protests. The escalation began after mass arrests at the Columbia University campus occupation, led by anti-Zionist groups, in which ...
The nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970 was a massive outpouring of anti-Vietnam War protests that erupted in May of 1970 in response to the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia. The strike began on May 1 with walk-outs from college and high school classrooms on nearly 900 campuses across the United States. [1]
The University of Chicago encampment was cleared May 7. Administrators had initially adopted a permissive approach, but later said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about ...
An estimated 7,000 students and other people who were "exhuberant but orderly" gathered Nov. 28, 1961, outside the Ohio Statehouse in protest over the vote of the Ohio State University faculty to ...
James Alexander Hood (November 10, 1942 – January 17, 2013) was one of the first African Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, and was made famous when Alabama Governor George Wallace attempted to block him and fellow student Vivian Malone from enrolling at the then all-white university, an incident which became known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door".
Autherine Juanita Lucy (October 5, 1929 – March 2, 2022) was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. [1] Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael 's resignation. [2][3] Years later, the University admitted her as ...