Autherine Juanita Lucy was the first black student to attend the University of Alabama in 1956. She was born on October 5 1929 in Shiloh, Alabama and graduated from the high school of Linden Academy in 1947. She went on to attend the Selma University in Selma, and the all-black Miles College in Fairfield - where she graduated with a BA in English in 1952. Later in 1952, she decided to attend the University of Alabama as a graduate student but, … Wikipedia
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U.S. Supreme Court LUCY v. ADAMS, 350 U.S. 1 (1955) 350 U.S. 1 LUCY ET AL. v. ADAMS, DEAN OF ADMISSIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. www.justia.us/us/350/1/
Autherine Juanita Lucy was born on October 5, 1929, in Shiloh, Alabama, the daughter of Minnie Hosea Lucy and Milton Cornelius Lucy, a farmer. www.stanford.edu/group/King/chronology/details/560206.htm
Autherine Lucy 's dream of obtaining a degree in library science was finally realized when she officially enrolled at the all-white University of Alabama in 1956. While the court had granted her the right to attend the university, the white population se www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html