That Time Rutgers-Newark Black Students Took Over Conklin Hall 50 Years Ago, Renaming It “Liberation Hall”

Pictured above: Members of the Rutgers University Black Organization of Students (BOS) unfurl a banner renaming Rutgers-Newark’s Conklin Hall in February of 1969. A little less than two years after the Newark rebellion of July 1967 and months before Fred Hampton’s assassination in December of 1969, Black student activists took over Conklin Hall at Rutgers-Newark….

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