VIDEO RECORDING
The Original Allen Building Takeover Protesters Tell Their Stories
PHOTOS (click to see more)
PROGRAM (PDF)
REMARKS - PRESIDENT VINCENT E. PRICE
Remarks Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Allen Building Takeover
OPENING REMARKS - DR. MARK ANTHONY NEAL
Letter: On The Allen Building Takeover
MEDIA COVERAGE
In 1969 Black Students Took Over A Duke University Building. A New Exhibit Reminds Us Why That Mattered.
The Independent Weekly
Where Are They Now?
The Duke Chronicle
1969 Allen Building Takeover Alumni Reunite on 50th Anniversary
For 50 Years, Student Activists Have Been Trying To Make Duke 'Feel More Like Home'
WUNC
Duke University Remembers Student Takeover
Spectrum News
Re-appropriating History: Whitewashing The Takeover
The Duke Chronicle
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Allen Building Takeover
Said@Duke: Howard Fuller
Duke Today
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Thanks to the Nasher Museum of Art, Rubenstein Arts Center, Doris Duke Center, Washington Duke Inn, the Chronicle Pitch Story Lab team, DDC International, Echos Media and Ynobe Knows Events.
Special thanks the Allen Building Takeover 50th Anniversary Committee: Duke alumni Catherine LeBlanc, '71, Bertie Howard, '69, Bianca C. Williams, '02, 05, '09; faculty and staff, Wahneema Lubiano, associate professor of African & African American Studies and literature; Mark Anthony Neal, professor and chair of the Department of African & African American Studies, Tyra Dixon, department administrative assistant, and Camille Jackson, director of communications; current students Zara Porter, '21, Sydney Roberts, '19, Qsanet Tekie, '19, Mikhal Kidane, '19, Yannet Daniel, '20, Kennedy Ware, '20, and graduate student assistant Anastasia Karklina.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke Alumni Affairs, the Duke Black Alumni, the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, and Duke University Archives.