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• April 3–4 – National Guard called into Chicago, and Memphis placed on curfew on
anniversary of MLK's assassination.
• April 19 – Armed African-American students protesting discrimination take over Willard
Straight Hall, the student union building at Cornell University. They end the seizure the
following day after the University accedes to their demands, including an Afro-
American studies program.
• April 23 – Beth Willis was selected as a model for the 1969 College Issue of
Mademoiselle Magazine.
• April 25–28 – Activist students takeover Merrill House at Colgate
University demanding Afro-American studies programs.
• May 8 – City College of New York closed following a two-week-long campus takeover
demanding Afro-American and Puerto-Rican studies; riots among students break out
when the school tries to reopen.
• May 16-20 AU Center “Concerned Students” which later became “Organization for
Black Unity Now,” detained Trustees to demand changes including renaming the AU
Center, Martin Luther King University.
