The Schoolhouse Door

Some of the most important battles of the civil rights era were fought in Alabama. Indeed, Alabama was to the civil rights movement what Virginia was to the Civil War. This is the story of how the University of Alabama experienced the end of segregation and how events on that campus influenced the civil rights movement and exposed the massive resistance to the changes it promised. It is the story of two dramatic confrontations, the Autherine Lucy episode of 1956, and George Wallace's 1963 stand in the schoolhouse door. Confrontations that gave the nation symbols for an age of moral struggle.