Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enrol at the University of Alabama, faced intense racial hostility shortly after her historic enrolment on February 3, 1956. She was subjected to threats, racial slurs, and violence from a hostile mob, including a riot on February 6, 1956, which led to her being trapped in a dormitory before being rescued by police. Despite a court order to reinstate her, university officials expelled her three days later, citing safety concerns, a decision that effectively ended her immediate efforts to complete her graduate studies. Nearly 60 years later, in 1988, the university formally rescinded her expulsion, and she was awarded her master’s degree in library science, which she had pursued in 1956, graduating alongside her daughter. She passed away on March 2, 2022, at the age of 92.
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