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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 />

spring <strong>2016</strong> [ Oakwood <strong>Magazine</strong> ] 27

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