Three women students, 1968
Three (unidentified) women students at an information table in the Kresge Auditorium building, 1968.
1968
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and President John F. Kennedy in 1968 sparked new initiatives towards making MIT a more equitable community. This included the formation of the Black Students' Union and Project Interphase, a summer program for incoming minority freshman. Shirley Ann Jackson '68, PhD '73 (physics) and Jennifer Rudd '68 (biology) became the first black women to graduate from MIT.