Autherine Lucy Foster made history in 1956 by integrating the University of Alabama
Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...
Tuscaloosa News' editorials criticized riots in wake of Autherine Lucy's enrollment
Publisher Buford Boone denounced the violence and exclusion of Autherine Lucy, the University of Alabama’s first Black student ...
The Harvard Crimson7y
Gradualism and The Negro
The Till murder trial, the riots surrounding Autherine Lucy's attempt to enter the University of Alabama, the mobilization of white citizens' councils, the rantings of Eastland and Talmadge all ...
The Tuscaloosa News15d
UA President Stuart R. Bell will leave legacy of growth at the Capstone
University of Alabama President Stuart R ... the university's first Black faculty member, and Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black woman to attend classes at UA, in 1956. Her days were cut ...
National Bureau of Economic Research3mon
Overcoming Discrimination: Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics
Examples abound including Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby in the case of Major League Baseball, Autherine Lucy who was the first Black student at the University of Alabama, and Jane Chastain and ...
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George Wallace and His Circle
"In one eighteen-month period," recounts Dan Carter in his George Wallace biography, "his followers joined in the stoning of Autherine Lucy on the University of Alabama campus, assaulted black ...