RIP and Roll Tide! to a hero and a lady, Ms. Autherine Lucy Foster

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A deserved and symbolic "stand-alone" instead of inclusion in the 2022 RIP thread

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/autherine-lucy-foster-dead.html

Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92
Her career there lasted only three days; attacked by mobs, she was suspended and then expelled. Today, a campus building is named in her honor.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Ole Man Dan]

My Aunt Betty Daniel was at Alabama the same time as Autherine Lucy.
Betty came home and told us that Autherine was scared to death when she came to Alabama. I can imagine she went thru a terrifying event.