Press release issued by the Rutgers News Service on March 3, 1969, which describes the University’s responses to each of the demands of the Black Organization of Students (BOS). BOS members took over Conklin Hall on February 24th for three days, after the administration rejected their demands for greater recruitment of minority students and faculty. –Credit: John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark
The infamous “Medical School Agreement” reached between representatives of Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities and government officials regarding the proposed College of Medicine and Dentistry in the city’s Central Ward. The Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA) and the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal represented the city’s poor Black and Puerto Rican communities and led the charge to develop an alternate plan for the College of Medicine and Dentistry that would have originally displaced approximately 20,000 Black and Puerto Rican residents of the Central Ward. — Credit: Junius Williams Collection
