Howard-Linton Barbershop became a place of refuge during major civil rights struggles in Tuscaloosa. In September 1952, Autherine Lucy's application to the University of Alabama was accepted, but when she arrived on campus and university officials discovered that she was African-American, they denied her admission. In 1955, following Brown vs. Board of Education, which struck down segregation in public schools, the NAACP secured a court order forcing the university to accept Lucy. In 1956, at age 27, she enrolled as a graduate student in Library Science and attended her first class on Friday, February 3. On Monday, February 6, when she arrived on campus for class, a mob estimated at more than a thousand pelted her with rocks and eggs and threatened to kill her. She narrowly escaped and found refuge in Howard-Linton Barber Shop. White community members pursued her, but police and a hastily organized protective guard of armed black men surrounding the barbershop scared them off. Later that afternoon, five cars driven by black men pulled in front of the barbershop, hid Lucy in one of the cars so the mob would not know which one she was in, and escaped with her to Birmingham. Seven years later, the barbershop again played an important role in a civil rights march that came to be known as Bloody Tuesday. When Tuscaloosa County planned a new courthouse, officials assured the black community that there would be no segregated facilities, but when the courthouse opened, it had separate bathrooms and water fountains. On June 9, 1964, members of the Civil Rights movement in Tuscaloosa, led by Rev. T. Y. Rogers, Jr., tried to march from First African Baptist Church to the courthouse in a non-violent protest against the segregated facilities. Police and white extremists attacked them, sending 34 to the hospital and 94 to jail, more than would be hospitalized or jailed on Bloody Sunday in Selma a year later. Many of the wounded retreated to Howard-Linton Barber Shop, where community members provided first aid while Rev. T. W. Linton called U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who were standing by to offer assistance.