Scarlet and Black, Volume Three : : Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020 / / ed. by Miya Carey, Marisa J. Fuentes, Deborah Gray White.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Beatrice J.,; Bayker, Jesse,; Brooke, A. Thomas,; Carey, Miya,; Dexheimer, Lynda,; Esty, Kaisha,; Fields, Whitney,; Fuentes, Marisa J.,; Gavigan, Ian,; Johnson, Tracey,; Kaplan, Joseph,; Morrissey, Kenneth,; Orozco, Roberto C.,; Rael, Carie,; Thomas, Brooke A.,; Walker, Pamela N.,; Walker, Pamela,; White, Deborah Gray,; White, Edward,; Wierda, Meagan,; Williams, Joseph,
• HerausgeberIn: Carey, Miya,; Fuentes, Marisa J.,; White, Deborah Gray,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 39 b-w images

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This final of three volumes concludes the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes essays about Black and Puerto Rican students' experiences; the development of the Black Unity League; the Conklin Hall takeover; the divestment movement against South African apartheid; anti-racism struggles during the 1990s; and the Don Imus controversy and the 2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Scarlet and Black -- Introduction -- PART I Prelude to Change -- Circa 1944–1970 -- 1 Twenty-Twenty Vision: -- 2 Rutgers and New Brunswick: -- 3 “Tell It Like It Is”: -- 4 Black and Puerto Rican Student Experiences and Their Movements at Douglass College, 1945–1974 -- PART II Student Protest and Forceful Change -- A History of Black and Puerto Rican Student Organizing across Rutgers University Campuses, 1950–1985 -- 5 A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers–Camden and Rutgers–Newark -- 6 Equality in Higher Education: -- 7 The Black Unity League: -- 8 “We the People”: -- PART III Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973–2007 -- Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973–2007 -- 9 “It’s Happening in Our Own Backyard”: -- 10 Fight Racism, End Apartheid: -- 11 “Hell No, Our Genes Aren’t Slow!”: -- 12 “Pure Grace”: -- Epilogue: -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors