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Rescuers assist a displaced family near 15th Street after the tornado hit Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011.

The tornado, later determined to be a category EF4 with winds approaching 200 miles per hour, moves through Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011.

Aerial view of the damage caused to Rosedale Court Housing Development by the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011. Of the 188 housing units at Rosedale Court, 100 were destroyed, leaving 96 families homeless. The entire complex was later…

Aerial view of the intersection of 15th Street and McFarland Boulevard, one of the busiest retail corners in the city, the day after Tuscaloosa took a direct hit from a devastating tornado on April 27, 2011.

President Barack Obama surveys the damage of the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, along with Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox.

Brigadier General Henry Graham orders Alabama Governor George C. Wallace to step away from the door of Foster Auditorium when Wallace attempted to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from registering for classes at the University…

Brigadier General Henry Graham leads U.S. Deputy Attorney General toward Foster Auditorium to confront Gov. George C. Wallace, as Wallace attempted to block the registration of Vivian Malone and James Hood for classes at the University of Alabama.…

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace talks with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenback at Foster Auditorium on June 11, 1963, when Wallace made his "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" to prevent integration at the University of Alabama. Ultimately,…

The Northport Civic Club float for the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade.The automobile was driven by Miss Pearl Maxwell who became Mrs. Peters. The woman in the front passenger seat is Mrs. J. E. Shirley, wife of a Northport doctor.

The Neilson-Smith Shoe Company float in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade on May 30, 1916, was composed of "a large shoe mounted on a dray and Mr. Neilson as 'Old Mother Hubbard' sat in the heel of it, complacently smoking a cob pipe, as her children…