Ralph A. Dungan. Trenton, Department of Higher Education, 1969. Available?
"Equality in Higher Education: An Analysis of Negative Response to the Conklin Hall Takeover"
Kenneth Morrisey. IN Scarlet and Black: Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020. Miya Carey, Marisa J. Fuentes, and Deborah Gray, eds. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2021. Available?
On February 24th 1969, members of the Rutgers-Newark Black Organization of Students (BOS)took over Conklin Hall, one of the main classroom buildings, to protest the lack of minority students and faculty on campus. A project of the John Cotton Dana Library Digital Preservation Initiative, the site features several slide shows, video interviews, a time line, and digital documents and photographs. [Note: This is the Internet Archive site; not all links are still working.]
"This study was guided by the following research question: How has Rutgers-Newark's commitment to community engagement evolved since the 1967 Newark disorders? The study revealed how community engagement can evolve within tertiary educational institutions in urban settings and, regarding the Rutgers-Newark campus, concludes that the following three major factors influenced the advancement of community engagement: leadership, vision and mission."
"The collection consists of cassette recordings of oral history interviews conducted by librarian emeritus Gilbert Cohen. These interviews document the city of Newark and Rutgers University-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s. Sixty people associated with the Rutgers-Newark campus were interviewed including students, faculty, administration, and staff representing a wide spectrum of political beliefs and levels of activism." Includes links to online audio and transcripts.