Members of the Afro-American Society also created pamphlets to give prospective students a picture of what life was like at Mount Holyoke, encouraging them to apply. These pamphlets wrote about the realities of attending a predominantly white institution but also focused on the sense of sisterhood found in groups like the Afro-American Society, as well as the strong academics.
“The rest of us are making it together, holding on, drawn to each other by the things we share, as all black people do, bolstering our strengths by making them collective, creating a sisterhood composed of many small and different sisterhoods. It’s the Black Experience at Mount Holyoke, and we want and need you, sister” – Gloria Maxwell ‘72
“Whatever your thing here, you can be about doing it, knowing that the other sisters are doing it too, and feeling, sharing, and understanding what you’re about” – Gloria Maxwell ‘72
“What I have become here at Mount Holyoke has been all about becoming a black woman, an intellectual, an assertive individual, a learned student and most importantly myself, different from all other women but a part of that universal species – women, sisters” Cassandra West ‘79
