Today marks the day University of Alabama Student Autherine Lucy (Foster) was suspended from attending classes, three days after she entered the Department of Education through a side corridor. I visited the place where a courageous Lucy, who wanted to become a teacher, tried to be the first person of color to attend “Bama” despite white protests two years after the Brown desegregation case was announced by the U.S. Supreme Court.
These were the steps leading to Education Building where Lucy was escorted away from protesters.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Buford Boone of TheTuscaloosa News described the incident in this editorial:
These are bulletin boards on the walls in the corridor today.
The pictures speak for themselves. Know History.
The place where Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door is Foster Auditorium where young women now practice volleyball and basketball.
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