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Box 38034.001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Group of Ku Klux Klan members during an Autherine Lucy enrollment protest, 1956 February 4

 Item — Box: 38034.001, Folder: 2010.020.000023
Identifier: 2010.020.000023
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 4