Photo: Autherine Lucy in a press conference with Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Thurgood Marshall, Director and Special Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2 March 1956. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

On This Day: African American Fights Exclusion from Univ. of Alabama

By Tony Pettinato on February 7, 2018

An article about Autherine Lucy, who in February 1956 became the first African American student to attend a white university or public school in Alabama... (Read More)

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