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1969 Allen Building Takeover Alumni Reunite on 50th Anniversary
Nearly two dozen of the protesters met with administrators then told their stories to a sold-out audience The 1969 Allen Building Takeover has loomed large in Duke’s history. This past weekend, Feb. 9-10, nearly two dozen of the Duke alums who protested returned to campus to check on the status of the demands they issued […]
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Allen Building Takeover
This Saturday, Feb. 9, Duke University will grapple with a portion of its racial history, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of a pivotal occasion that forced the university to eventually evolve to offer one of the top-ranked black studies programs in the country. The story of the Feb. 13, 1969, “takeover” of the Allen Building, a […]
