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#BlackHistoryMonth - Vivian Malone integrates University of Alabama in 1963. Then becomes first black graduate.
9:41 AM - 6 Feb 2016
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http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/06/the-week-in-toons-pt-1/
Eric Holder's sister-in-law was Vivian Malone Jones
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Brown v. Board of Education meant that the University of Alabama had to be desegregated. In the years following, hundreds of African-Americans applied for admission, but all were denied. The University worked with police to find any disqualifying qualities, or when this failed, intimidated the applicants. But in 1963, three African-Americans with perfect qualifications—Vivian Malone Jones, Dave McGlathery and James Hood—applied, refusing to be intimidated. In early June a federal district judge ordered that they be admitted, and forbade Governor Wallace from interfering
On June 11, Vivian Malone and James Hood arrived to register. Wallace, attempting to uphold his promise as well as for political show, blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium with the media watching. Then, flanked by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach told Wallace to step aside. However, Wallace cut Katzenbach off and refused, giving a speech on States' rights. Katzenbach called President John F. Kennedy, who federalized the Alabama National Guard. General Henry Graham then commanded Wallace to step aside, saying, "Sir, it is my sad duty to ask you to step aside under the orders of the President of the United States." Wallace then spoke further, but eventually moved, and Malone and Hood registered as students.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder
MOre~http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022850944
African American Group~Thank you~
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thread! 
and not really having any clue about the terrible injustice down South in those days.
Important to know our history, Iliyah, and with that lesson.. it makes it all the more compelling that Vivian Malone, Dave McGlathery and James Hood would not be intimidated by Gov Wallace's standing in their way to go to the University of Alabama.
Chilling what they went through just because these people were such inveterate racists.
Mahalo, Iliyah~you're teaching your children well
sister-in-law. They both have a special in history.
I hadn't known about the relationship before!
What a courageous women Vivian was - those were NOT at all easy times! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Malone_Jones
She certainly served as a great role model for her sister and all who came after! 
I posted on here in 2013 when Tx4obama made a thread about it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022850944
He's obviously so proud of her. 
Mahalo, BlueMTex~
Mahalo, Cha! 
I had no idea she has passed 
only a year younger than my mom. That is way too soon. What a beautiful woman with "perfect qualifications" who rose to the call.
Vivian Malone Jones and Eric Holder have both made history and here he is Tweeting about her in 2016 as President Obama's former AG.
America’s first black attorney general: Eric Holder’s legacy
Holder has attacked Republican efforts across the country to pass voter ID laws that would disproportionately suppress African-American and Latino voters. He issued new guidance to schools and the zero-tolerance discipline policies that have sent minority students on a fast track to the criminal justice system. He has urged the reduction of harsh sentences for low-level drug offenders — a move seen as a way of remedying the decades-long war on drugs that has filled U.S. prisons with black and brown bodies
When Holder was appointed the nation’s top lawyer in 2009, he promised to use his office to aggressively enforce civil rights law. And while he has been criticized for his role in a number of controversial policy matters involving civil liberties and a well-publicized botched gun trafficking sting, his work in enforcing rights and balancing the scales of justice, especially for minorities, has earned him high praise.
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Ifill called Holder’s vision for the civil rights division of the Department of Justice “one of restoration and transformation, from his leadership on voting rights, to legal services for the poor, to criminal justice reforms and, in recent weeks, to his forceful response to the tragic events in Ferguson.”
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“When the history of his tenure is written, Eric Holder will ultimately be recognized as one of the finest attorneys general this country has ever known.”
Much MOre~ http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/americas-first-black-attorney-general-eric-holders-legacy
Mahalo, Kind of Blue~ My thought, too, Vivian Malone Jones passed way too soon~
well, the Justice Department for a long time because of my family's case. We were ignored. But time puts things in perspective quickly, especially when one is victorious. He as one man, and as one of the first, has done an amazing job overall.
Mahalo, Cha! You never fail to bring balance 
Holder has attacked Republican efforts across the country to pass voter ID laws that would disproportionately suppress African-American and Latino voters. He issued new guidance to schools and the zero-tolerance discipline policies that have sent minority students on a fast track to the criminal justice system. He has urged the reduction of harsh sentences for low-level drug offenders — a move seen as a way of remedying the decades-long war on drugs that has filled U.S. prisons with black and brown bodies
When Holder was appointed the nation’s top lawyer in 2009, he promised to use his office to aggressively enforce civil rights law. And while he has been criticized for his role in a number of controversial policy matters involving civil liberties and a well-publicized botched gun trafficking sting, his work in enforcing rights and balancing the scales of justice, especially for minorities, has earned him high praise.
snip//
Ifill called Holder’s vision for the civil rights division of the Department of Justice “one of restoration and transformation, from his leadership on voting rights, to legal services for the poor, to criminal justice reforms and, in recent weeks, to his forceful response to the tragic events in Ferguson.”
snip//
“When the history of his tenure is written, Eric Holder will ultimately be recognized as one of the finest attorneys general this country has ever known.”
Much MOre~ http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/americas-first-black-attorney-general-eric-holders-legacy
she~
“When the history of his tenure is written, Eric Holder will ultimately be recognized as one of the finest attorneys general this country has ever known.”
He will go on to do more good things.
Lol~like the hearts Cha.
Thanks, great op!
