In Popular Culture
- Malone is portrayed in a scene from the film Forrest Gump where the University of Alabama is desegregated. Jones walks toward the school door and drops her book, but she apparently does not notice. Forrest Gump sees this and picks it up and gives it to her, and then proceeds to follow her into the school.
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