that is one of the reasons as well as the fact petworth and the number of minorities being concerned as to whether the system is fair, they often will take a turn down as a confirmation of their suspicion that it is not fair and they decide why try again grips they pursue other field. s. this slide shows the progress we have made our last 50 or 60 years in the percentage of african-americans graduate from u.s. medical school. starting in the late 1960's -- this is after the assassination of martin luther king jr. -- those of you old enough to remember -- in 1968, following the assassination, universities and various colleges and professional schools examines themselves as to where it. they were i was on the faculty of boston university and i graduated in 1958 as the one black student in my class. 10 years later, being on the faculty, there were three black students in the class trip a a member of the faculty i thought this was progress but this was not the kind of progress that would guess anywhere. there were a number of things that happened at universities all over the country. the