Foster Auditorium: Now the home of Alabama volleyball and women’s basketball, Foster Auditorium became a National Historic Landmark in April 2005 as it was where then- Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood to oppose desegregation of the University.
Howard-Linton Barbershop: Autherine Lucy, the first Black student accepted into the University, was threatened and attacked by a violent mob on only her third day of studying Library Science. Chased by the mob, Lucy took refuge in the barbershop until she could be escorted out past the mob later that afternoon.
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center: Named after Dinah Washington, a jazz and blues singer born in Tuscaloosa. She became one of the most popular African American artist in the 1950s and was inducted in the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986 and in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Hunter Chapel A.M.E Zion Church: The oldest black church in Tuscaloosa founded in 1866 by Shandy Jones, Alabama’s first black legislator serving from 1868 to 1870.
