50 years later, first Alabama integration remembered

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF)- September 9th marks 50 years since Dr. Sonnie Hereford III walked his six-year-old son, Sonnie Hereford IV, to Fifth Avenue School in Huntsville. It was a walk that would take its place in Alabama's history books. On that day, Sonnie Hereford IV became the first black child to successfully integrate into an all-white public school in Alabama. His father tried to enroll...