"When people would ask me where I wanted to go to school, I would say, MIT," recalled Jennifer N. Rudd '68 in the 2001 book Technology and a Dream. “They would laugh and I would say, ‘Why are they laughing?’ It seemed like a perfectly good place to me," she said. Rudd is one of the first two black women to earn a degree from MIT, along with Shirley Ann Jackson '68, PhD '73. On this first she reflected, "I was surprised that I could be a first at something, you know, at that time and I just thought what a shame it was." In 1968, Rudd and Jackson helped found the MIT Black Students’ Union @MIT_BSU, which commemorates its 50-year history with a weekend of panels, networking, and celebration of the #PowerofCommunity on November 2-4. Register at bamit.org/bamitcapstone.