BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, July 15, 1942, the First Black graduate from the University of Alabama, Vivian Malone Jones, was born in Mobile, Alabama as the fourth child among eight siblings. Both of Malone’s parents worked at the Brookley Airforce Base where her mother served as a domestic servant while her father served […]
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