Box 38034.001
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Autherine Lucy enrollment protesters standing by Reese Phifer Hall, 1956 February 6
Item — Box: 38034.001, Folder: 2010.020.000044
Identifier: 2010.020.000044
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
James William Oakley Jr. took these photographs during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956. Photos do not show Lucy. Photos instead focus on crowds that gathered on campus an in downtown Tuscaloosa in protest of her enrollment.
Oakley was a student at the University at the time.
Dates:
1956 February 6