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Alabama College's club YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) helps a new black school that opens in Montevallo.

This article also highlights the lack of funding in black schools at the time, a problem many schools in Alabama still face…

Though much of the research found was uplifting in a sense, this joke posted under the section of the newspaper titled "Idiot's Delight" made it apparent that race relations in Alabama and thus Montevallo were still an issue.

Though this is not Montevallo's admission of a colored person to school, this is significant in the change and timeline of Montevallo's eventual admission of blacks.

An article in which the writer refuses to accept that someone is better than another based on individual characteristics - including race.

A long article arguing against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This is an article in which argues against supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This editorial touches on an almost poetic take post civil rights act. Race relations are still hot in Alabama, and this article describes how there are Tom Colemans everywhere. Tom Coleman was a man who killed an unarmed civil rights worker and…

Bill Jones, who was recently appointed when the article was published, recruited the woman along with seven other new players.

Carl Samuels and Shirley Bowman are pictured.