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Photographer: Warren K. Leffler via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (PD)
Taken: June 11, 1963
Caption:
"Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" | Additional Description: Then-Gov. George Wallace (
second from left) defiantly stands at the entrance of the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium as Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach confronts him over the state official's refusal to desegregate the university.
Submitted: February 28, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p708825
File Size: 0.315 Megabytes
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