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Bessie the Cow
By The Glomerata | April 12Cindy Murphy, later named Miss Auburn, poses with Bessie the Cow, the winner of the 1979 Miss Auburn election.
Cindy Murphy, later named Miss Auburn, poses with Bessie the Cow, the winner of the 1979 Miss Auburn election.
Alpha Gamma Delta's page of the 1967 issue of the Glomerata, Auburn's official yearbook, shows five women dressed in blackface, wearing shirts with exaggerated caricatures of black people and performing a minstrel show.
A photo from the 1964 Glomerata shows students eating and studying outside Ross Hall.