Four surveys of the attitudes of the white students on the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama, begun just before its effective desegregation in 1963 and continued at three-year intervals until 1972, indicated a rapidly increasing acceptance of black students. A fifth survey, conducted in November 1982, disclosed a continuing increase in the acceptance of blacks as students, but a reversal in acceptance as social intimates. These results were reflected at a more general level by increased acceptance of political and economic equality, while attitudes related to social aspects of desegregation remained roughly at 1972 levels. Consistent with these findings, an increased proportion of students perceived blacks as possessing negative characteristics.