Thelma Glass (1916-2012)

Professor Glass was a tenured faculty of geography at Alabama State University for over 40 years. She was a community activist and Secretary of the Women’s Political Council. She was the Co-organizer of the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, a pivotal action in the Civil Rights Movement which resulted in the US Supreme Court ruling segregation on buses was unconstitutional. Professor Glass is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and the LINKS Incorporated, and was the subject of a book chapter titled Teachers and Their Times: Thelma Glass and Juanita Gaston was published in the book The Role of the South in the Making of American Geography: Centennial of the AAG, 2004. An auditorium in Trenholm Hall at ASU was dedicated to Professor Glass in 1981 and thirty years later in 2011, she would receive the Black and Gold Standard, the highest honor awarded to alumnus of Alabama State University.