CAMPUS TOUR

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Activism Across
the Years

Gorgas House 

Reaching Out-of-State Students

(Re)Naming
Ferguson Center

Virtual Tour and iTunesU app

Walking in Lucy's Shoes 

Activism Across the Years

Evan Haskins provides insight into shifting race relations in the decades since Lucy, Malone and Hood stepped onto campus:

1963: A poll in the CW shows 34% of students viewed African Americans as inferior to Whites, and 61% opposed desegregation outright

1964: 10 black students are enrolled at UA, out of a student body of 9.000

1970s: Black student enrollment increases from 344 to 1716 in this decade; the first African-American student-athletes arrive on campus, first in men's basketball then in football; the first Black Homecoming Queen is crowned (by Gov. Wallace); Black students are elected vice-president and president of the Student Government Association in consecutive years; violence at Kent State inspires UA students to demonstrate "biracial solidarity" in front of the UA president's mansion (see photo).

1980s: Enrollment of Black students declines, as a percentage of the overall student body, during this decade.

2004: UA Faculty Senate formally apologizes for its history of institutional slavery; graves of slaves are noted on campus with memorial signage.

2011: Students hold the Not Isolated March to protest UA administration responses to act of racial bias (see photo)

2013: After white sorority members speak up about racial bias within rush selections, campus-wide activism leads to UA administration enacting Continuous Open Bidding to allow women of color to join historically white sororities.