Allen Building Takeover collection, 1969-2002.

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Allen Building Takeover collection, 1969-2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55635807

Collection contains announcements, flyers, publications, correspondence, handouts, reports, transcripts, ephemera, clippings, a bibliography, WDBS radio broadcasts, oral histories, and photographs documenting Black Culture Week (Feb. 4-12, 1969), the Allen Building Takeover, student demands, statements by Provost Marcus Hobbs and by Duke President Douglas Knight, student convocations and demonstrations both in support of and against the Takeover, and later events on the Duke campus and in Durham, N.C. In addition, the collection contains clippings and artwork related to remembering the Takeover, including the 2002 Allen Building lock-in. Major subjects include African American students and civil rights demonstrations.

750 items (1.0 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7710075

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Knight, Douglas Maitland, Jr., 1921-2005

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Born June 8, 1921, in Cambridge, MA, Douglas M. Knight was educated at Yale University and received an A.B. in 1942, an M.A. in 1944, and a Ph.D. in 1946. He served as an instructor and assistant professor of English from 1947 to 1953 at Yale University. Knight then became president of Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1953. In 1963, Knight was persuaded to come to Duke University. New beginnings and unique building projects characterized his tenure. The con...

Duke University. University Archives

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Richard Halleck Brodhead became Duke's ninth president on July 1, 2004, after a 32-year career at Yale University. In addition to serving as president, he is a professor of English at Duke. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he graduated from Yale in 1968 and received his Ph.D. there in 1972. He then joined the Yale faculty, where he became the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English and American Studies. After serving as chair of Yale's Department of English for six years, Brodhead was named dean of Yale ...

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Duke University. Afro-American Society

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WDBS Radio (Radio station : Durham, N.C.)

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Hobbs, Marcus E., 1909-

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Marcus Edwin Hobbs, Duke University educator and administrator, served as Chair of the Chemistry Dept. (1951-1954), Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1954-1958), Dean of the University (1958), Vice Provost (1962-1963), and Provost (1969-1970), before his retirement in 1970 as Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. From the description of Marcus E. Hobbs papers, 1935-1980. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 60344412 Marcus Edwin Hob...