Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...
Publisher Buford Boone denounced the violence and exclusion of Autherine Lucy, the University of Alabama’s first Black student ...
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 ...