This is one of forty-three snapshots from the day George Wallace made his "stand in the schoolhouse door," in an attempt to block James Hood and Vivian Malone from entering the University of Alabama. Each snapshot measures about 3 x 3 inches.
A banner on the wall in the background reads, "Stand Up for America." Other signs read, "Hueytown Is a Wallace Town" and "Stand Up for Alabama / Vote Wallace." This image was taken for (but not used in) the article "But the Negroes Had to Sit...
In the pamphlet Milner gives a "testimony" to argue against giving African American political power, and he blames the Republican Party for discord in the state: "There has not been a moment of peace in Alabama, since the black Republican party was...
This is one of forty-three snapshots from the day George Wallace made his "stand in the schoolhouse door," in an attempt to block James Hood and Vivian Malone from entering the University of Alabama. Each snapshot measures about 3 x 3 inches.