Foster Auditorium

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Foster Auditorium is a historic building on the University of Alabama campus, best known as the site of Governor George Wallace’s 1963 attempt to block the enrollment of Black students in the infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf auditorium
historic place
university building
architecturalStyle Moderne architecture
capacity approximately 5000
category Civil rights movement sites
University and college buildings in Alabama
commemorates Autherine Lucy Foster
James Hood
Vivian Malone Jones
country United States of America
currentHomeVenueOf Alabama Crimson Tide gymnastics
surface form: Alabama Crimson Tide gymnastics team

Alabama Crimson Tide volleyball team
Alabama Crimson Tide women’s basketball team
dateOfEvent 1963-06-11
formerHomeVenueOf Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball
surface form: Alabama Crimson Tide men’s basketball team

Alabama Crimson Tide women’s basketball team
hasHeritageDesignation civil rights landmark
hasMemorial Autherine Lucy Clock Tower
Malone-Hood Plaza
hasParticipant George Wallace
James Hood
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
surface form: Nicholas Katzenbach

Vivian Malone Jones
federalized Alabama National Guard
inception 1939
listedOn National Register of Historic Places
locatedIn Tuscaloosa, Alabama
University of Alabama
surface form: University of Alabama campus
namedAfter Richard Clarke Foster
notableEvent Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
attempted segregationist blockade by Governor George Wallace
NRHPListingDate 2005
NRHPType building
ownedBy University of Alabama
partOf University of Alabama
reopenedAfterRenovation 2011
significantFor civil rights movement in the United States
desegregation of the University of Alabama
enrollment of first Black students at University of Alabama in modern era
underwentRenovation 2010
usedFor basketball games
commencements
gymnastics meets
speeches
university events
volleyball games

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