The passing of a true Civil Right pioneer escaped my attention last month, and apparently that of the MSM. I heard nothing about it till now, when I found a small reference to it in an obscure magazine.
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones, civil rights pioneer and civil servant, born July 15 1942; died October 13 2005 after suffering a stroke.
I found an obituary in the Guardian
Vivian Malone Jones, who has died after a stroke in Atlanta, Georgia, aged 63, came to public attention as one of the two black students whose enrollment at the University of Alabama in 1963 was a decisive moment in America's civil rights struggle. It remains etched in the nation's memory, defying Governor George Wallace's infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" to stop integration.