OU-Magazine-Spring-2016
OU-Magazine-Spring-2016
OU-Magazine-Spring-2016
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and Social Activity<br />
Oakwood College<br />
choir performed at the<br />
World’s Fair in New York.<br />
] 1965<br />
] 1966<br />
Carter Hall was built.<br />
] 1967 ] 1968<br />
Oakwood students participated<br />
in the voting rights march from<br />
Selma to Montgomery.<br />
Frank Hale Jr.<br />
elected president<br />
of Oakwood.<br />
Dr. Hale co-founded the Alabama Center<br />
for Higher Education/ACHE; and visited<br />
the White House as a guest of President<br />
Lyndon B. Johnson to discuss higher<br />
educational issues.<br />
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968,<br />
Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally<br />
shot on the balcony outside his<br />
room at the Lorraine Motel in<br />
Memphis, Tennessee.<br />
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