The Turning Point of '68
Listen as Joan Frances Crowley, BVM and Assistant Dean in Residency, recalls the reaction of African-American student Diane Allen to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On April 4, 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. The news rippled through the Mundelein campus, causing unbearable grief and laying bare racial differences in the student body that previously went unaddressed. While the tragedy served a blow to the Civil Rights Movement, it would open the door for Mundelein undergraduates to address racial discrimination on their own campus in the years to come.