Alice in the Newspaper

 Nat drove us down there. He was nervous, and when we got out, he said, “Please watch my baby.” I noticed the manager walked right up and down the aisle. I didn’t know Nat had talked with him after we went in. The manager said, “This was a really good day for her to come, because I had other mothers to come in, and I was really glad to see their reaction toward her, because we didn’t have any problem at all.”

This newspaper article focuses on the Lowery family and their achievements, including Alice Lowery's bold act of attending a white-only movie theater with her daughter. For Alice Lowery, it was a risk to her safety and an almost unthinkable action.

The command of public spaces by white citizens made access to public institutions, like movie theatres, inaccessbile to many African Americans. By chosing to insist that her daughter deserved to see a movie just like any white child, Alice Lowery's courageous act of defiance is an example of acts of resistance seen throughout the South during segregation, acts that ulitmately helped forge integration of public spaces for all races.