UA began a series of recognitions, including a $25,000 endowed fellowship, a portrait in the Ferguson student center, and the Autherine Lucy Clock Tower in Malone-Hood Plaza, beside Foster ...

Nov. 3, 2010: The 40-foot-tall Autherine Lucy Clock Tower is dedicated at Malone-Hood Plaza, as part of a ceremony honoring the three Black students who led the desegregation fight.

More than 200 family, friends, University of Alabama alumnae, faculty, staff and students gathered Thursday morning in Foster Auditorium to celebrate the life of Autherine Lucy Foster, a tribute ...

The university also has honored Lucy Foster with the Autherine Lucy Clock Tower located in front of Foster Auditorium, as well as two endowed scholarships and Lucy’s Legacy, a living-learning ...

Foster, whose last name was then Lucy, became the first Black student to enroll at the university in 1956. On her third day on campus, on February 6, 1956, a violent mob surrounded Graves Hall ...

The university has also recognized her with a scholarship and by naming the Autherine Lucy Clock Tower for her in 2010. Christine Hauser is a reporter, covering national and foreign news.

The first Black student, Autherine Lucy Foster to enroll at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa will now be honored on a campus building. ... A clock tower was dedicated to her in 2010.

Autherine Lucy, center, in 1956, after she had begun attending classes at the University of Alabama only to face mobs that attacked her. With her were Arthur Shores, one of her lawyers, and Ruby ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - After serving as the backdrop to Gov. George Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" in 1963 and then falling into disrepair in the succeeding decades, Foster ...

Autherine Lucy Foster, whose last name was then Lucy, made history in 1956 when she enrolled as the university’s first Black student. She was the first Black person to go to an all-White school ...

Nov. 3, 2010: The 40-foot-tall Autherine Lucy Clock Tower is dedicated at Malone-Hood Plaza, as part of a ceremony honoring the three Black students who led the desegregation fight.