Julia Tutwiler, Anna Adams, Bessie Parker, Autherine Lucy, Vivian Malone — these are famous names in the history of UA women. Because of trailblazers like them, thousands of women such as those pictured here have excelled at UA and each generation has expanded opportunities for the next.
Eight of the 10 women attending UA in 1899, and the first to live in a women’s residence on campus. UA women have always loved sports! Tennis players, circa 1910. UA had a strict dress code for female students for many years. Women’s convocation, 1940s. Dorm life in Mary Burke Hall sometime in the 1960s. After dress codes but before laptops. Class time in 1989. UA women students have a long history of service. AIDS Awareness Walk, 1990s. For many years, women students’ curfew prohibited them from staying out late enough to take in a play. As more opportunities for students open up, women embrace them. The pride in reaching the goal never changes. UA women have come so far since 1892. What does tomorrow hold?
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