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Song: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
Music Drama: This Freedom
Song: "Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley"
Song: "In Christ There is no East or West"
Song: "Messiah"

This article references two schools that are visited by a trainer to help plan a community program for African Americans in town.

More articles throughout the years of the Alabamian refer to the YWCA helping with funding for books.

This article refers to an old black janitor, Alec, who would traditionally ring an old laundry bell in Reynolds to signify the beginning and end of a semester. This was a very interesting and sweet article. It is inferred that Alec is no longer at…

In this small editor's note, a student named Pat Harper notices connections between Alabama College students, who are all white women, and Alabama State College students, who are all black.

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