Soror Vivian Malone Jones, University of Alabama Pioneer Has Passed Away

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by dstbrat
Soror Vivian Malone Jones- the 1st African American to be graduate from the University of Alabama (she was the one that Gov Wallace attempted to bar in the famous footage)

Sadly, I just heard that Vivian Malone Jones died from a stroke earlier today.

http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v.../434ed1913d9eb

My deepest condolences on the loss of an outstanding Delta.

[CrimsonTide4]

I just searched for her and found this great article about a great Soror.

http://www.ccom.ua.edu/od/article_jones.shtml




ETA:

http://www.wells.edu/pdfs/winter2004_20-21.pdf#search='vivian%20malone%20jones'


Peaches n Cream was kind enough to post this in the Delta Firsts thread but I split it and retitled it

[MeezDiscreet]

God bless her family.

You know, this weekend, i went home and my mother and i were watching t.v. when this story came on and i told her "i bet she's a soror." i was right