February 3rd
On this day,
Autherine Lucy, the first Black person to be accepted at the University of Alabama after a court order, enrolled for classes in 1956. Three days later, on February 6, the school suspended her saying that she was responsible for riots engaged in by a white mob of over 1000 people.
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