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  1. Vivian Juanita Malone Jones (July 15, 1942 – October 13, 2005) was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, and in 1965 became the university's first black graduate.

  2. Oct 14, 2005 · Vivian Malone Jones, who on a blisteringly hot June day in 1963 became one of two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama after first being barred at the door by the defiant...

  3. Oct 29, 2020 · Vivian Malone Jones was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, despite the resistance of Governor Wallace. She earned a degree in business management and a master's in public administration, and worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and the EPA.

  4. Vivian Malone Jones was one of the first black students to enroll in the all-white University of Alabama in 1963, after a federal court order and a presidential intervention. She faced hostility and harassment, but graduated in 1965 and had a successful career in the federal government.

  5. Oct 15, 2005 · Vivian Malone Jones Dies at 63 The civil rights pioneer, who had been barred from attending college by Gov. Wallace, was the first African-American graduate of the University of Alabama.

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  6. Vivian Malone Jones was the first Black student to graduate from the University of Alabama in 1965, after a legal battle against segregation. She worked for the US Justice Department and the EPA, and received an honorary degree from UA in 2000.

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  8. Nov 7, 2021 · Vivian Malone Jones was the first Black person to graduate from the University of Alabama in 1965. She also had ties to Stillman College, where a new YWCA facility will be named after her.