CAMPUS TOUR
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 

Touring Campus -  1956 to the Present

On these pages, learn about key places & spaces on UA's campus that relate to our history of racial segregation and eventual integration. Throughout your time on campus, see how many of these spaces you can visit or learn more about -- this website can guide your way, as could the self-guided tours created by COM 499 students. Keep an ear out for tours led by Comm Studies faculty members Dr. Meredith Bagley and Dr. Jason Black during the school year!

UA's campus has changed much since the 1950s, but space and place remain a key area around which UA history can be studied.
In addition  to the audio tours created by my COM 499 students, there are several other ways to explore significant spaces on UA campus.

During February I offer "The A.L Tour: Honoring the Legacy of Autherine Lucy" - our first black student at UA.

Dr. Jason Black, my colleague in Communication  Studies, periodically offers this campus tour of key sites related to race relations at The University of Alabama.

Read about Dr. Black's tour in this Crimson White news story

Several of Dr. Blacks' students are pushing for public memory recognition for former slave quarters behind the UA President's Mansion - read more here 

The document below will help YOU explore spaces integral to UA's history and present -- visit with a critical, observant eye and ask good questions!
Get a sense of Dr. Black's tour from this youtube video.

Alternate Campus Tours at UA

Student Projects and Overviews

Activism Across the Years
Evan Haskins (Spring 2013) examines student activism at UA across the decades since 1956.
Gorgas House 
Joe Bruno and Wilbur Delashmet (Spring 2013) design an informative flyer for the Gorgas House, the oldest surviving structure on UA's campus.
Reaching Out-of-State Students
Jordan Kindred (Spring 2013) offers a flyer to help educate out-of-state students about UA's history of racial (de)segregation.
(Re)Naming Ferguson Center
KD Bridges (Spring 2013) proposes a new design for the Ferguson Student Center, located on McCorvey Drive, to publicly recognize the roles Board of Trustee members Ferguson and McCorvey played in opposing desegregation of UA.
Virtual Tour & iTunesU App
Eric Alsobrook, Kelsey Meehan, and Taylor Henderson (Fall 2013) expanded our ability to visit these important sights by creating iTunesU self-guided tours. One tour records Dr. Jason Black's campus tour and another records Dr. Meredith Bagley for sites more specific to Autherine Lucy's days on campus. Check back soon for the uploaded tours!
Walking in Lucy's Shoes 
Brittany Youngs (Spring 2013) provides information on Autherine Lucy's short stay on campus, focusing on Lucy's path from Feb 1-6 as tension and violence increased on campus. Lucy's final day of classes was cut short due to mob violence on campus and she was later suspended and expelled "for her own safety" by the UA Board of Trustees.

Kamal Muhammed (Fall 2013) created a short video titled Schoolhouse Door Hero about the violence Ms. Lucy experienced. College of Comm staff member and UA alum Jim Oakley shares his first-hand experience, as does Tuscaloosa Civil Rights leader and small busines owner Thomas Linton, whose barbershop became a refuge for Lucy during her ordeal.