Table of Contents
Introduction DEBORAH GRAY WHITE PART I Prelude to Change 1 Twenty-Twenty Vision: New Jersey and Rutgers on the Eve of Change ROBERTO C. OROZCO, CARIE RAEL, BROOKE A. THOMAS, DEBORAH GRAY WHITE 2 Rutgers and New Brunswick: A Consideration of Impact IAN GAVIGAN AND PAMELA WALKER 3 “Tell It Like It Is”: The Rise of a Race-Conscious Professoriate at Rutgers in the 1960s JOSEPH WILLIAMS 4 Black and Puerto Rican Student Experiences and Their Movements at Douglass College, 1945-1974 KAISHA ESTY, WHITNEY FIELDS, AND CARIE RAEL PART II Student Protest and Forceful Change 5 A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers-Newark BEATRICE J. ADAMS, JESSE BAYKER, ROBERTO C. OROZCO, AND BROOKE A. THOMAS 6 Equality in Higher Education: An Analysis of Negative Responses to the Conklin Hall Takeover KENNETH MORRISSEY 7 The Black Unity League: A Necessary Movement That Could Never Survive EDWARD WHITE 8 “We the People”: Student Activism at Rutgers and Livingston College, 1960-1985 TRACEY JOHNSON, CARIE RAEL, AND BROOKE A. THOMAS PART III Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973-2007 9 “It’s Happening in Our Own Backyard”: Rutgers and the New Brunswick Defense Committee for Assata Shakur JOSEPH KAPLAN 10 Fight Racism, End Apartheid: The Divestment Movement at Rutgers University and the Limits of Interracial Organizing, 1977-1985 TRACEY JOHNSON 11 “Hell No, Our Genes Aren’t Slow!”: Racism and Antiracism at Rutgers during the 1995 Controversy MEAGAN WIERDA AND ROBERTO C. OROZCO 12 “Pure Grace”: The Scarlet Knights Basketball Team, Don Imus, and a Moment of Dignity LYNDA DEXHEIMER Epilogue: Scarlet and Black: The Price of the Ticket DEBORAH GRAY WHITE Acknowledgments Notes List of Contributors About the Editors
