Vivian Jones, first black U of AL grad, 63

Posted: Thursday, October 13th, 2005 6:28 pm

Governor George Wallace Blocks Entrance at the University of AlabamaATLANTA (AP) - Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace’s infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” in 1963, died Thursday. She was 63. … Read full obituary