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• November 11 – 13 – Ann Lanier and Betty Coleman appeared in The Atlanta-
Morehouse-Spelman Players presentation of Durrenmatt’s The Physicists, directed by

Dr. Baldwin W. Burroughs.

• Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights
section of Manhattan, New York on February 21.

• On March 7, six hundred Alabama civil rights activists stage a Selma-to-Montgomery

protest march to draw attention to the continued denial of black voting rights in the

state. The marchers are confronted by Alabama State Troopers whose attack on them
at the Edmund Pettus Bridge is carried on national television.

• Alex Haley publishes The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

• The Voting Rights Act is signed into law on August 6.

1966/67

Sophomore Class Officers: Jackie Howard, Mary Susan Parker, Miriam McReynolds
Laura Nixon, Pat Collins