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Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92

Autherine Lucy Foster, First Black Student at U. of Alabama, Dies at 92

Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died Wednesday. She was 92. University officials announced her death in a statement. Her daughter, Angela Foster Dickerson, said her mother died Wednesday morning and said a family statement would be released. Foster in 1956 briefly attended classes at the then all-white […]