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WOMEN WHO CHOOSE TO CHANGE THE WORLD
In the Spring of 1969, the male student visitation. Organization for Black Unity
Spelman Student Other changes required Now
Government Association Spelman Trustee action. OUR CHANGING WORLD
prepared a list of demands Admitting that they had
for the Annual Trustee come, anticipating being NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Board meeting: enhanced locked up, the Trustees Out of the hotbed of campus
emphasis on black culture, acquiesced to all our activism, members of the
literature and content in logically presented, well- Class of 1969 eagerly
curriculum; more black crafted demands. Those of immersed themselves in
faculty; and student, faculty us who were graduating their communities, joining
and alumnae representation sighed with relief that no organizations or leading
on the Trustee Board (the further action was needed, groups to address issues of
Trustee Board consisted of knowing that we were public concern. Whether
one black member). The prepared to suffer advocating for better
demands came after a disciplinary consequences if working conditions, inclusion
campus wide lock-in protest our demands were not met. or social concerns, the
at Sisters’ Chapel. In Some Spelman students critical issues of the 1970’s,
response, the administration participated in the lockup of women’s rights, civil rights,
agreed to changes the Morehouse Board of gay rights, the
liberalizing curfews, Chapel Trustees by the AU environmental movement,
attendance requirements, Concerned Students which the Watergate on-going
and the dress code and
later became the Vietnam War, and
