Selma Marches: Civil Rights Forces Voting Rights Act
George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door in June 1963 — literally, physically, in the doorway of the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium — to block two Black students from enrolling. President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard the same day and forced him to step aside. Vivian Malone and James Hood walked in. Wallace built a national political career on that doorway. Malone Jones went on to work at the Justice Department, enforcing civil rights law.
September 10, 1963
63 years ago
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