Attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, Governor of Alabama George Wallace stands at the door of the Foster Auditorium while being confronted by United States Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.

Was George Wallace Anti-Education…Or Just Anti-Integration?

While pledging to keep schools segregated, Alabama Governor George Wallace set up a community college system that benefited black Alabamans.
Children laying on the floor and reading together

How Segregation Hurts Kids

Educational segregation hurts all kids, white, black, and Hispanic.
Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton in a still from the 1967 film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

The Etiquette of Desegregation

How whites and blacks had to learn new forms of etiquette post desegregation.