Unsung hero: Autherine Lucy Foster

Photo: Alabama Archives On today, Atlanta Free Speech celebrates a pioneer that is still alive. Autherine Lucy Foster is the first African American to enroll at the University of Alabama in the year 1952. When school administrators discovered she was black they denied her admittance, but she later re-enrolled in…

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Unsung heroes at a FEMA disaster assistance center

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption:  Henry Clyburn,a FEMA reservist Anyone who has watched television, read a newspaper or surfed the Internet during the month of November has been exposed to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy — through the eyes of its various victims. Homepage position:  10 read…

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