“There was a lot of opposition to us,” Dwight Armstrong told AL.com in 2013.
. “We had always been a civil rights family. We didn’t go to be martyrs. Our father, who was a World War II vet, didn’t migrate North, like so many many others, looking for better opportunities. He wanted to make Alabama better. That was his dream; that was his purpose in life.
“City and school officials today praised Huntsville residents as racial barriers fell at four city schools without signs of serious trouble,” a Huntsville Times article said on Sept. 9, 1963.
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