Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee Records, 1989-1995.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee Records, 1989-1995.

The collection is mostly comprised of correspondence reflecting the efforts of Howard McGinn, class president and project chairman, and the alumni of Rutgers College Class of 1965, to raise the funds necessary to construct the monument. Also included are project invoices, blueprints, class accounts, press releases for the memorial?s inauguration and unveiling, as well as newspaper clippings.

.4 cubic ft. (1 legal manuscript box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8149278

Rutgers University

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Rutgers University

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From July 12 to July 17, 1967, the city of Newark, New Jersey, was wrecked by racial violence. In six days of rioting, 23 people were killed, 725 were injured and nearly 1,500 were arrested. Property damage was estimated at over $10 million. While the riots were still in progress, sixty community leaders formed a Committee of Concern with the following aims: to help restore calm to the city, to study the causes of racial unrest, and to formulate goals for social and economic improve...

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Rutgers College. Class of 1965.

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On December 4th, 1989, the Rutgers College Class of 1965 launched a competition seeking proposals for the design of a Vietnam Veterans Memorial, intended as a class gift. The monument honors Rutgers students who lost their lives or were missing in action during the Vietnam War. The memorial, located near Scott Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Hamilton Street, was designed by architect R. Allen Christianson. The result of his design is a polished black granite wall with seventeen slotted,...

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