A First Step
American civil rights activist, Autherine Lucy at a press conference at the national office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in New York, 2nd March 1956. Lucy was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, but was suspended after anti-integration riots broke out on campus. With her are NAACP director, Roy Wilkins (left) and Thurgood Marshall, director and special counsel for NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who is putting Lucy up at his home in New York amid concerns for her safety in Alabama. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)
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