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 ATLANTA (AP) - More than 500 mourners gave Vivian Malone Jones one last standing ovation at her funeral Wednesday, honoring the quiet courage of a civil rights icon who was the first black
student to graduate from the University of Alabama.
"Her life made a difference in the freedoms that we enjoy in America today," Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said at the service, which focused on the day in 1963 when Jones and James Hood faced off with then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who made his stand in the "schoolhouse door" in an attempt to prevent their enrollment.
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