Youth Opportunity Program, 1960s
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Youth Opportunity Program students on Killian Court, ca. 1960s.
In the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, the early 1970s coincided with new legal mandates like affirmative action and the formalization of minority recruitment, retention, and enhancement programs.