loc_evenhand_cph.3c08276 cph.3c08276 evenhand loc yes Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 29 - Negro coed leaves court--Autherine Lucy, left foreground, leaves Federal Court here today with her attorneys, Thurgood Marshall, center and Arthur Shores, after court recessed African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham Robert S. Vance Federal Building and United States Courthouse (Birmingham, Ala.) Courthouses--Alabama Segregation in education--Alabama--Birmingham African American college students--Alabama--Birmingham Discrimination in education--Alabama--Birmingham African American lawyers College integration--Alabama--Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 Lucy, Autherine, 1930- Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904-1996 Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993--Trials, litigation, etc. Lucy, Autherine, 1930- --Trials, litigation, etc. Autherine Lucy, the first African American student to be admitted to the University of Alabama in 1956, is shown with her attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Shore. The case went to court in 1953, and a decision to prohibit the university from rejecting Lucy based on race was reached in 1955. This decision was amended days later to apply to all African American students seeking to enter the University of Alabama. Lucy enrolled on February 3, 1956, but was expelled for her own safety three days later. Marshall and Shores went back to court but were forced to withdraw the case due to lack of support. Lucy's expulsion was finally overturned in 1988. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Library of Congress "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection (Library of Congress) 2004 Black-and-white photographs http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c08276 Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records (no. BM6). Exhibited: With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty Years, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2004. 1956 Birmingham (Ala.) Jefferson County (Ala.) Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) Publication may be restricted. See P&P Restrictions Notebook. 20090526 204835