Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (died 2005)

Vivian Malone Jones

American civil rights advocate (1942–2005)

Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was the first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama, in 1965. She and James Hood were the first black students able to enroll at the university since Autherine Lucy and Pollie Myers initially strove to desegregate the school. Malone…