# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/autherine-lucy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:57:02.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/autherine-lucy"
name: "Autherine Lucy"
slug: "autherine-lucy"
description: "Autherine Juanita Lucy was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. She and Pollie Myers were the first black students admitted to the University of Alabama, but they had to fight the university in court to have their admission maintained once the university realized they were black. Lucy was able to attend in 1956, but a violent mob of white community members targeted her on her fourth day of classes, enabling the university to suspend her. Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's president Oliver Carmichael's resignation. Years later, the university admitted her as a master's student and in 2010 a clock tower was erected in her honor on its campus."
tagline: "American activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Autherine_Lucy_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-10-05"
deathDate: "2022-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.105834666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Autherine Lucy"
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    title: "أوثيرين لوسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Autherine Lucy"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autherine_Lucy"
    title: "Autherine Lucy"
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    title: "Autherine Lucy"
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    title: "Autherine Lucy"
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    title: "אות'רין לוסי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autherine_Lucy"
    title: "Autherine Lucy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autherine_Lucy"
    title: "Autherine Lucy"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump