Autherine Juanita Lucy's Page

Childhood: I was born on October 5, 1929, in Shiloh, Marengo County. I was the last of 10 children. My parents were Milton Cornelius Lucy and Minnie Maud Hosea. I lived on a 110 acre farm. My father was a blacksmith and also made baskets, and axe handles. I was a great student but I was always very shy and quite. 

Education: I went to public school all the way until High School when my mother sent me to go to Linden Academy. After I graduated High School I went to Selma University and got my undergraduate degree in English. After I tried to enroll in the University of Alabama but was expelled three days later. I then went to Miles Memorial College and got my degree in English. Later, i went back to the University of Alabama after my expulsion got over turned after I went and talked to students at the school and and got my degree in Elementary Education.  

Career:  I was a teacher and substitute teacher up until 1952. My teaching career was put on hold when i tried to enroll in the University of Alabama. After, I began lecturing about the civil rights movement along with teaching. 

Quote: " I could be riding down the street and white men would drive by and say, ' We gon' get you,' "

Linda, Osborne. Women of the Civil Rights Movement. Pomegranate Communications, Inc, 2006. Print.

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