Differences and one Communality.
Marable was a member of the Afro-American Society but not a regular member. He recalls going to some meetings and fundraising events that encouraged him but he did not connect as deeply as he thought he would. "I was part of an already diverse background and demographics," he said during our interview. He knew about the racial differences and differences of cultures but did not give much thought to them. Once other African American students after him started to come to campus, he noticed the deeply different cultural shock somewere going through. For example, the African American women on campus had a different experience than Marable. Eileen Cave, class of 1976, was one of the African American women who saw the divide not only between African Americans and other races but the difference in gender. She was a consistent member of the Afro-American Society, even becoming the organization’s first female president. She wrote a report called “Institutional Racism and Student Life at Dartmouth'' with classmates Monica Hargrove and Judi Redding. Although Marable and Cave had different experiences of what being Black at Dartmouth means they both were connected not only because of the color of their skin but their involvement in the safe place that the society represented for marginalized people.
