Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VINCENT E. CARMICHAEL...
...house resolution demanding that the university's President Carmichael furnish the names of all students who signed a petition asking that Autherine be readmitted to the university...
...cross-questioning, Marshall led J. Jefferson Bennett, assistant to President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, to admit that the protective efforts of the university could hardly be called vigorous. No students were arrested. The mob threatening Autherine had been told only to "move," and the fire truck on the scene had not been used to hose down and thus disperse the crowd. Assistant to the Dean of Students Henry Sikir agreed that he had seen no action taken against the mob other than "talking to them." Asked Marshall: "Have you reported [any student] in that group to anybody?" Said Sikir...
Meanwhile, about 20 students signed a petition asking that Autherine be allowed to come back to her classes. Then, at a convocation of 7,500 students, President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael finally took a stand. He demanded that all students help maintain order to "remove the cloud which, in the minds of many, now hangs over our beloved alma mater." Though the university had fought by every legal means to keep segregation, he said, it could not fly in the face of a court decree ordering the trustees to take in a Negro. "No great university can afford to defy...
...black Cadillac driven by Henry Nathaniel Guinn, Negro owner of a Birmingham finance company. A crowd of 300 had already gathered around the hall, suddenly began to chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped off to Bibb Graves Hall for Autherine's next class (children's literature). Autherine had to use a back door once again...