A celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took place on Tuesday afternoon in the Beach Auditorium, and a panel followed in the evening.
The celebration focused on the Selma-Montgomery marches, which were led in part by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The marches began in January 1965 and aimed to secure equal voting rights.
“If you think to yourself ‘my vote doesn’t really count for anything,’ shame on you,” President of the Africana Studies Student Association Amethyst Jefferson-Roberts said.
In Spring 2014, the number of African-American undergraduate students at CSULB decreased by 19 to 1,214 students, with nine less African American graduate students than in fall 2014, totaling 258 students, according to the university website.