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Making a difference in the world, for the world The college’s $125-million AUGUSTANA NOW: A Campaign for Success in the World, for the World focuses on four student-centered goals: affordability; preparation; innovation; and diversity, equity and inclusion. The world needs Augustana graduates, and this campaign is designed to answer that call. Here are three alumni committed to making the world a better place—in St. Louis, Milwaukee and Kenya.
“ The Civil Rights Movement has given me much more than I have given it— I said this 54 years ago, and I still say it.”
AUGUSTANA MAGAZINE | SPRING 2019
Mark Harrington ’64
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Mark Harrington ’64: working toward equal opportunity In the spring of 1964, Mark Harrington was a senior looking forward to graduation and taking a break from academics. Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—a key civil rights organization of the 1960s—came to Augustana to recruit students to help register voters in Mississippi that summer.
Growing up in Ferguson, Mo., Harrington says he was not acquainted with black people and as a result, did not understand their experiences or racism. “It was a part of American life about which I was totally naive,” he explained. The recruiters got Harrington’s attention. He wanted to join them to work on voter registration, but he would have to pay for his own meals, transportation and other expenses.
