After graduating from high school in 1944, she attended the then all-femaleHuntingdon College in Montgomery for a year,
then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied law for several years,
and wrote for the university newspaper, but did not complete a degree.
After graduating from high school in 1944,[6] she attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year,
then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied law for several years and wrote for the university newspaper,
but did not complete a degree.