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Autherine Lucy (Autherine Juanita Lucy) was born on 5 October, 1929 in Shiloh, Alabama, U.S., is an African-American activist (1929–2022). Discover Autherine Lucy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

Popular As Autherine Juanita Lucy
Occupation Educator, professor
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 5 October, 1929
Birthday 5 October
Birthplace Shiloh, Alabama, U.S.
Date of death 2 March, 2022
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1929

Autherine Juanita Lucy (October 5, 1929 – March 2, 2022) was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956.

Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael's resignation.

1947

She graduated in 1947, and went on to attend Selma University in Selma for two years, after which she studied at the historically black Miles College in Fairfield.

1952

She graduated from Miles with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1952.

In September 1952, she and a friend, Pollie Myers, a civil-rights activist with the NAACP, applied to the University of Alabama.

Lucy later said that she wanted a second undergraduate degree, not for political reasons but to get the best possible education in the state.

Although the women were accepted, their admittance was rescinded when the authorities discovered they were not white.

Backed by the NAACP, Lucy and Myers charged the University with racial discrimination in a court case that took almost three years to resolve.

While waiting, Lucy worked as an English teacher in Carthage, Mississippi, and as a secretary at an insurance company.

1953

A series of legal proceedings lasted from 1953 until 1955.

1954

Thurgood Marshall helped win the 1954 landmark Supreme Court desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education.

The Brown decision said that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional (illegal).

Marshall had a great amount of confidence that if the Supreme Court decided something, then the rest of the country would follow its decision.

Attorneys for Lucy and the NAACP, including Arthur Shores and Marshall, helped build a lawsuit against the University because they believed the school helped the white mob by not having protection for her and prevented Lucy from attending class.

1955

On June 29, 1955, the NAACP secured a court order preventing the University from rejecting the admission applications of Lucy and Myers (who had married and was then known as Pollie Myers Hudson) based upon their race.

Lucy was finally admitted to the University but it rejected Hudson on the grounds that a child she had conceived before marriage made her an unsuitable student.

Even though Lucy was officially admitted, she was still barred from all dormitories and dining halls.

Days later, the court amended the order to apply to all other African-American students seeking admission.

At least two sources have said that the board hoped that without Hudson, the more outgoing and assured of the pair and whose idea it originally was to enroll at Alabama, Lucy's own acceptance would mean little or nothing to her, and she would voluntarily decide not to attend.

1956

But Hudson and others strongly encouraged her, and on February 3, 1956, Lucy enrolled as a graduate student in library science, becoming the first African American ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state.

Lucy attended her first class on Friday, February 3, 1956.

On Monday, February 6, 1956, riots broke out on the campus and a mob of more than a thousand men pelted the car in which the Dean of Women drove Lucy between classes.

Threats were made against her life and the University president's home was stoned.

The police were called to secure her attendance.

These riots at the University were what was, to date, the most violent, post-Brown, anti-integration demonstration.

After the riots, the University suspended Lucy from school because her own safety was a concern.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a sermon in 1956 about the events and it at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church the day before his trial for violating Alabama’s anti-boycott law:

"As soon as Autherine Lucy walked on the campus, a group of spoiled students lead [sic] by Leonard Wilson and a vicious group of criminals began threatening her on every hand. Crosses were burned. Eggs and bricks were thrown at her. The mob even jumped on top of the car in which she was riding. Finally the president and trustees of the university of Alabama asked Autherine to leave for her own safety and the safety of the university. The next day after Autherine was dismissed the paper came out with this headline: 'Things are quiet in Tuscaloosa today. There is peace on the campus of the university of Alabama.' Yes things were quiet in Tuscaloosa. yes there was peace on the campus, but it was peace at a great price. It was peace that had been purchased at the exorbitant price of an inept trustee board succoming [sic] to the whims and carprices [sic] of a vicious mob. It was peace that had been purchased at the price of allowing mobocracy to reign supreme over democracy."

Lucy was known and described as "the architect of desegregating Alabama's education systems."

1967

While Lucy felt defeated from being expelled and losing the court case, Marshall, who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in 1967, thought differently.

In a letter to Lucy, he said, "Whatever happens in the future, remember for all concerned, that your contribution has been made toward equal justice for all Americans and that you have done everything in your power to bring this about."

Lucy and the NAACP filed contempt-of-court charges against the trustees and president of the University; against the dean of women for barring her from the dining hall and dormitories, and against four other men (none connected to the University) for participating in the riots.

On February 29, the Federal Court in Birmingham ordered that Lucy be reinstated and that the University must take adequate measures to protect her.

The University trustees then expelled her permanently on a hastily contrived technicality.

The University used the court case as a justification for her permanent expulsion, claiming that Lucy had slandered the University and they could not have her as a student.

2010

Years later, the University admitted her as a master's student and in 2010 a clock tower was erected in her honor on its campus.

Lucy was born in Shiloh, Alabama.

Her father Milton Cornelius Lucy and mother Minnie Maud Hosea were sharecroppers; she was the youngest child in a family of five sons and four daughters.

The family owned and farmed 110 acres, and Lucy's father also did blacksmithing, and made baskets and ax handles to supplement their income.

After attending public school in Shiloh through grade ten, she attended Linden Academy in Linden, Alabama.