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MIT recruitment ad in Ebony Magazine, 1971

MIT recruitment ad in Ebony Magazine, 1971
Source: Ebony Magazine

"MIT May Be For You!" - recruitment ad on page 38 of Ebony Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 8, June 1971.

After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, and the subsequent formation and activism of the Black Students' Union, MIT worked to increase its diversity recruitment efforts. Ads appeared in various issues of the popular Black-interest magazine Ebony.

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