Alabama State Troopers Block Entrance to Murphy High School, September 1963

Alabama State Troopers are shown blocking the entrance to Murphy High School to turn away Dorothy Bridget Davis and Henry Hobdy as part of George Wallace's executive order. Caption on photo reads: (MOB2) MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 9 - TROOPERS TURN BACK STUDENTS - With Alabama State Troopers blocking the main entrance to Murphy High School, Negro students, arms loaded with school books, Dorothy Bridget Davis, 16, and Henry Hobdy, 17, turn away from school. Hobdy is reading his copy of an executive order from Governor Wallace stopping the pair from attending classes. Murphy high is Alabama's largest high school with 3,300 students.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection