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Integration within 1963 Alabama high schools...
Integration within 1963 Alabama high schools...
Item # 721597
September 11, 1963
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Sept. 11, 1963
* Alabama high schools integration
* Negroes - student enter for classes
* Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham
The front page has a six column heading: "Alabama Schools Integrated" with subheads and two related photos. (see images) More inside.
Complete with 30+ pages, small library stamp near the top of the front page, some small binding holes along the spine, generally in very nice condition.
background: In September 1963, Alabama’s public high schools became a flashpoint in the civil rights struggle over desegregation. Following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, Alabama resisted integration. In September 1963, several high schools in Birmingham and other cities were scheduled to open under federal pressure to desegregate. White resistance was fierce, with protests, threats, and intimidation aimed at African American students attempting to attend formerly all-white schools. The most infamous example occurred in Birmingham, where African American students were met by angry mobs and required protection by federal authorities in some cases. This period highlighted the ongoing tensions between state defiance of federal civil rights laws and the struggle of African American communities to access equal education, coming just two months before the violent bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on September 15, which killed four young African American girls and shocked the nation.
Category: The 20th Century
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