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Autherine Lucy and her lawyers, Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Shores, and Constance Baker Motley, walking past the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on the day a federal judge ordered her readmission to the University of Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama

Dean, Norman

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Lucy was the first African American student enrolled at the University of Alabama, but university trustees expelled her due to mob violence.
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Created Date:
1956 02 29
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.com
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Alabama Media Group Collection

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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Birmingham (Ala.)
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Leaders
  5. Education
  6. Jefferson County (Ala.)
  7. Lawyers
  8. Lucy, Autherine, 1930
  9. Marshall, Thurgood, 1908 1993
  10. Motley, Constance Baker, 1921 2005
  11. School Integration
  12. Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904 1996

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