First Black students attend white Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville, Tuskegee schools 60 years ago this week
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 8, 2023
This story is part of AL.com’s “1963 Season of Change” series. See more coverage here.
This week in Alabama history marks a momentous shift: For the first time, Black students attended previously all-white schools in Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville and Tuskegee.
School desegregation, ordered by a judge in several school districts for the first week of September 1963, nine years after Brown . . .
