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The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Needed: More Students, Less Pickets

Needed: More Students, Less Pickets

James Hood November 3, 2010

James Hood, who became the first black man enrolled at The University of Alabama in 1963, wrote this guest editorial in the Crimson White on June 27, 1963, 16 days after George Wallace’s Stand in the...

Historical figures revisit Foster

Historical figures revisit Foster

Brittney Knox November 2, 2010

Foster Auditorium, a historical landmark on campus, is now home to the Autherine Lucy clock tower and the Malone-Hood Plaza. Prominent figures will grace the Capstone today to remember the building’s...

Lucy paves path, faces oppression

Lucy paves path, faces oppression

Amanda Sams November 2, 2010

White people only-Keep out. Signs around campus read slogans like this and worse, during the passion-and-prejudice filled days of Autherine J. Lucy's acceptance into the University of Alabama. As the first...

Foster Auditorium through the years

Foster Auditorium through the years

Jordan Staggs November 2, 2010

From concerts and lectures to record-making sports events, Foster Auditorium has been a point of history in the making at the University of Alabama since it was built. This timeline helps tell the tale...

Family to represent UA's first black grad

Family to represent UA’s first black grad

Taylor Holland November 2, 2010

Today marks a day of celebration for all those involved with the desegregation of schools and the anti-segregation process of the 1960s, 47 years after George Wallace’s famed Stand in the Schoolhouse...

Homecoming step show brings life to Foster

Homecoming step show brings life to Foster

Kelsey Stein October 14, 2010

In the past, audiences often filled the seats of Foster Auditorium for sports events, lectures, concerts and even graduation ceremonies, but the building stood largely unused until April 2009 when the...

Board approves Foster plaza design

Drew Taylor April 8, 2010

HUNTSVILLE – A UA System Board of Trustees committee approved the designs for Foster Auditorium’s new plaza Thursday afternoon during a meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The physical...