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History > USA > Civil rights > School desegregation
1950s-1960s
1956 > Alabama
Autherine Lucy Foster 1929-2022
Autherine Lucy, center, in 1956, after she had begun attending classes at the University of Alabama only to face mobs that attacked her.
With her were Arthur Shores, one of her lawyers, and Ruby Hurley, Southeast regional secretary of the N.A.A.C.P.
Photograph: Gene Herrick Associated Press
Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92 Her career there lasted only three days; attacked by mobs, she was suspended and then expelled. Today, a campus building is named in her honor. NYT March 2, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
Ms. Lucy, center, emerged from a federal courthouse on Feb. 29, 1956, after Judge Hobart Grooms ruled that she be allowed to return to the University of Alabama campus.
The university had suspended her from classes; after the judge’s order, it expelled her.
With her were her lawyers Thurgood Marshall, behind her at left, and, to the right of her, Mr. Shores.
Photograph: Gene Herrick Associated Press
Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92 Her career there lasted only three days; attacked by mobs, she was suspended and then expelled. Today, a campus building is named in her honor. NYT March 2, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
Ms. Lucy after appearing on the Alabama campus for classes in 1956.
She was the first Black student to attend the university.
Photograph: Bettmann, via Getty Images
Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92 Her career there lasted only three days; attacked by mobs, she was suspended and then expelled. Today, a campus building is named in her honor. NYT March 2, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
Alabama students on Feb. 7, 1956, protesting the admission of Ms. Lucy.
Some were wiping their eyes from tear gas and smoke bombs that the police had used against them.
Photograph: Associated Press
Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92 Her career there lasted only three days; attacked by mobs, she was suspended and then expelled. Today, a campus building is named in her honor. NYT March 2, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
Autherine Lucy Foster 1929-2022
Autherine Juanita Lucy (...) was known to family and friends by her middle name
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first Black student at U. of Alabama
Her career there lasted only three days; attacked by mobs, she was suspended and then expelled.
Autherine Lucy had no particular desire to be a civil rights pioneer.
Growing up as the youngest of 10 children in an Alabama farm family, she simply wanted to get the best education her state could offer.
She obtained a bachelor’s degree in English from the historically Black Miles College in Fairfield, Ala., in 1952.
But then, though she was a reserved, even shy person, she took a daring step:
She applied for entrance to her state’s flagship educational institution, the University of Alabama.
And she was accepted — at least until university officials discovered that she was Black and promptly told her that a mistake had been made and she would not be welcome.
So began a legal fight that culminated in 1956 — nearly two years after the Supreme Court found segregation in public schools and colleges unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision — when Ms. Lucy became the first Black student at Alabama.
But her quest to obtain a second undergraduate degree, in library science, lasted only three days of classes at Tuscaloosa.
When mobs threatened her life and pelted her with rocks, eggs and rotten produce, the university suspended her, ostensibly for her own safety.
Several weeks later, it expelled her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
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