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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.
Oct 29, 2020 · Vivian Juanita Malone was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama and was the first black graduate of the institution. Malone was born on July 15, 1942, in Monroe County, Alabama.
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...
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Malone applied to the University of Alabama, though it was an exclusively all-white institution at the time, and was admitted as a junior to its School of Commerce and Business Administration. The university already had a well-established reputation for barring black students, and had managed to skirt previous legal challenges to its discriminatory...
Born Vivian Juanita Malone on July 15, 1942, in Mobile, AL; died on October 13, 2005, in Atlanta, GA; married Mack Jones (died 2004); children: Michael, Monica. Education:Attended Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1961–63; University of Alabama, BS, 1965. Career:Department of Veterans Affairs, employee and personnel specialist, 1965–?; E...
Books
Notable Black American Women, Gale, 1992.
Periodicals
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 14, 2005, p. E1. Guardian(London, England), October 18, 2005, p. 32. New York Times, June 12, 1963, p. 1; October 14, 2005, p. C15. Post-Standard(Syracuse, NY), February 3, 2004, p. B1. San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 1996, p. A3. Washington Post, October 14, 2005, p. B6.
On-line
"Wells College Spring Convocation 2004: Opening Minds, Opening Doors," Wells College, www.wells.edu/pdfs/winter2004_20-21.pdf
May 30, 2020 · 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.
Feb 1, 2023 · On June 11, 1963, Vivian Malone Jones stoked the tempers of segregationists by enrolling in an all-white University of Alabama.
Oct 14, 2005 · Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to Gov. George Wallace’s 1963 “stand in the schoolhouse door,” died Thursday. She was 63.
