White High School Students Cursing Black Students on the First Day That Public Schools Were Integrated in Alabama, 1963

On September 10, 1963, white students began to withdraw from newly-integrated Tuskegee High School in Alabama to avoid attending school with black students. Within one week, all 275 white students had stopped attending the school.

White high school students cursing black students on the first day that public schools were integrated in Montgomery, Alabama, 1963. (Photo by Flip Schulke)