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Jim Oakley, placement director for the university's College of Communication
and Information Sciences, was the first university photographer
for the UA News Bureau. Many of his exclusive photographs
of the angry crowds that forced the first African-American to attend
the university, Autherine Lucy, to leave the campus after only a
few days, were seized by the FBI. Oakley, however has hung on to
his memories of that time as well as the Schoolhouse Door confrontation
in 1963.
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The photography
during the civil rights movement by Birmingham News-photojournalist
Spider Martin is considered by journalists and media critics to
be among the finest of that time. According to journalism chair
and professor, Ed Mullins, his photography causes viewers to believe
they, too, are part of the scene. Join Mullins as he recalls one
life that captured so many.
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