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met. Some Spelman students participated in the
lockup of the Morehouse Board of Trustees by the
AU Concerned Students, which later became the

Organization for Black Unity Now.

Our Changing World

In January of our senior year, many of us headed
out to the Atlanta schools for our student teaching

experiences. We received our first introduction to
the changing world as Spelman students were

assigned to newly integrated schools where there
were few, if any black teachers. The summer of
1968, some math and science students were
selected to work as interns in corporate settings

such as IBM and Bell Laboratories. Although we
had entered Spelman with aspirations of becoming

teachers and social workers, implementation of the
Civil Rights laws and anti-discrimination laws
during our college years meant that new career
opportunities were available to us. Graduate and

professional schools were eagerly recruiting us.
Our years at Spelman and experiences at Spelman

helped us become the women we were; only time
would help us realize that it was only a foundation
for the changes we were about to live through.