Autherine Lucy was excited about being accepted to the University of Alabama’s graduate program in Library Science. However, she knew that her road to becoming a librarian was not going to be easy. There was one major detail the university did not know at first about Lucy: she was African-American. After school officials realized Lucy was black, the university […]
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