they were looking for a new president. , whoapproached frank rose was a minister in the church of christ and president of pennsylvania college. anxious to come here because the university had this bad reputation. they finally said, dr. rose, we need you because we are facing desegregation and we need a southerner who can lead it. he came in 1958. his first challenge was, how do we do this peacefully? he went to the governor of big jim surprisingly said i agree, it is time we desegregated the university of alabama. he called his friend rockefeller and said don't be surprised, i have a friend down there, we serve on the tuskegee institute board. he is progressive and very liberal. you need to talk to judge wallace. he called judge wallace and he said, yeah, it's about time we desegregated the university of alabama. then came the election of 1958 and wallace was against john patterson. governor andame wallace swore that he would never let the race issue keep them out of politics again. patterson was not about to desegregate the university of alabama. he spent that time building buildings, b