Foster Auditorium was completed in 1939 as a multipurpose facility with a seating capacity of 5,400. It has been used for graduation exercises, indoor athletics events, concerts, lectures, and other large gatherings, including registration. The building housed the women's athletics programs during the 1970s and 1980s. After the women’s athletics programs were moved, the Department of Kinesiology was partially housed in Foster until 2006.
Foster Auditorium is the site of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" on June 11, 1963. Two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, enrolled at UA that day to herald the University's integration.
Foster Auditorium is building 40 on the campus map.
