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Gov. Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Gov. Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Alabama
governor
George Wallace
stands in the doorway
of the
University of Alabama
's Foster Auditorium to block two black students from enrolling on June 11, 1963. He is facing down Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who ordered federalized state troops to
desegregate
the school.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division