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Autherine Juanita Lucy (October 5, 1929 – March 2, 2022) was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. [1] Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael 's resignation.
Thus in 1956, Autherine Lucy became the first African-American to attend the school. On the third day of classes, a hostile mob assembled to prevent Lucy from attending classes. The police were called to secure her admission but, that evening, the University suspended Lucy on the grounds that it could not provide a safe environment.
This is a list of well-known Mormon dissidents or other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who have either been excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS and those inactive individuals who are on record as not believing and/or not participating in the church.
Luciana “Lucy” Fernandez, a Lourdes 17-year-old, died after being ejected from a boat that carried 14 passengers after it hit Channel Marker 15 along Cutter Bank on Sunday, Sept. 4.
February 3 – Autherine Lucy is admitted to the University of Alabama. Whites riot for days, and she is suspended. Later, she is expelled for her part in filing legal action against the university. February 24 – The policy of Massive Resistance is declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. from Virginia.
People are seen wearing blue after Lucy Fernandez’s funeral Mass at the Church of the Epiphany on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. To help Lucy’s family is working with Lourdes to set up a scholarship.
Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own church just west of Dallas.
Brennan Manning – American author, public speaker, and former Franciscan priest and later of the Little Brothers of Jesus before leaving and marrying a woman; Joseph McCabe - English Freethought author, secular activist, critic of the Catholic Church, and former diocesan priest; he left the priesthood in 1896 after losing his faith. [citation ...