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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 39 b-w images
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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