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photo<br />
Significant monuments and moments:<br />
Looking at civil rights locations throughout Tuscaloosa<br />
CW Photo Desk<br />
5A<br />
Foster Auditorium<br />
Now the home of Alabama volleyball and<br />
women’s basketball, Foster Auditorium<br />
became a national historic landmark<br />
in April 2005 as it was where in 1963,<br />
then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood<br />
to oppose desegregation of the<br />
university.<br />
CW/ Hannah Grace Mayfield<br />
Howard-Linton Barbershop<br />
Autherine Lucy, the first Black student<br />
accepted into the University, was<br />
threatened and attacked by a violent<br />
mob on only her third day of studying<br />
library science. Chased by the mob, Lucy<br />
took refuge in the barbershop until she<br />
could be escorted out past the mob later<br />
that afternoon.<br />
CW/ Michael Davis<br />
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts<br />
Center<br />
<strong>The</strong> center is named after Dinah Washington,<br />
a jazz and blues singer born in<br />
Tuscaloosa. She became one of the most<br />
popular African American artists in the<br />
1950s and was inducted into the Alabama<br />
Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986 and in<br />
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.<br />
<strong>The</strong> home was the home of the “Fertile<br />
Ground”: <strong>The</strong> Civil Rights Movement and<br />
its legacy in the Mississippi Delta exhibit<br />
in October of 2015.<br />
CW/ Caroline Simmons<br />
Hunter Chapel A.M.E Zion Church<br />
<strong>The</strong> oldest Black church in Tuscaloosa, it<br />
was founded in 1866 by Shandy Jones,<br />
Alabama’s first Black legislator who<br />
served from 1868 to 1870.<br />
CW/ Caroline Simmons