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In 1963, the University of Alabama was desegregated as Vivian Malone and James Hood became the first two Black students allowed to enroll in classes; Alabama Governor and segregationist George Corley Wallace Jr. initially blocked the doorway to the auditorium where course registration was taking place, delivering a speech before deferring to National Guard orders to move. #GeorgeWallace #CivilRights

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