Onyx Anneau Spring 2021

SMWC answered Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call to MAKE. EVERY.

As the Voting Rights Act made its way through Congress in the summer of 1965, two SMWC faculty members

and six students hit the streets of Albany, Georgia, to help thousands register to vote.

By Lindsey Richardt ‘07

Alma Louise Mescher, SP, ’45 , left, and Mary Jean Mark, SP, led a group of six students to Georgia after being invited by Martin Luther King, Jr. to participate in the Summer Community Organization (and) Political Education (SCOPE) program.

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