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HANNAH WOLFSON
The Associated Press
4/5/2010, 10:46 a.m. CDT
(AP) — TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - For years, the only marker on the University of Alabama campus of George C. Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" was a small brass plaque on a decaying building.
Now, with Foster Auditorium under renovation, university officials plan to build a plaza and a clock tower out front to commemorate the events that led to the integration of school in 1963.
The proposal for the Malone Hood Plaza-named for Vivian Malone and James Hood, the two black students whom then-Gov. Wallace tried unsuccessfully to block from entering Foster to register for classes-will go before University of Alabama trustees for approval this week.
It should have been done years ago, but we're doing it now," said E. Culpepper Clark, who wrote "The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama" and was dean of the College of Communication and Information Sciences before becoming dean of the journalism school at the University of Georgia.
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