On Feb. 24, 1969, members of the campus' Black Organization of Students occupied Conklin Hall and 'fundamentally changed Rutgers'
On the morning of Feb. 24, 1969, two dozen Black students on the Rutgers University Newark campus barricaded themselves inside a classroom building named Conklin Hall and according to one noted historian, “fundamentally changed Rutgers.”or BOS, and they took over the building on University Avenue to protest the lack of diversity on the Rutgers-Newark campus.
Alston, who hopes to become an emergency room doctor, is the first member of her family to attend college. “I think it’s important for people to be constantly reminded of the struggles that people went through for us to be here,” said Grant, of Piscataway. But, Price noted, the discipline, maturity and measured rhetoric of the unarmed students and then-Gov. Richard Hughes’ decision not to send in the National Guard avoided a violent confrontation.
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