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well-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.