Introduction
DEBORAH GRAY WHITE
PART I
Prelude to Change
1 Twenty-Twenty Vision: New Jersey and Rutgers on the Eve of Change
ROBERTO C. OROZCO, CARIE RAEL, BROOKE A. THOMAS, DEBORAH GRAY WHITE
2 Rutgers and New Brunswick: A Consideration of Impact
IAN GAVIGAN AND PAMELA WALKER
3 "Tell It Like It Is": The Rise of a Race-Conscious Professoriate at Rutgers in the 1960s
JOSEPH WILLIAMS
4 Black and Puerto Rican Student Experiences and Their Movements at Douglass College, 1945-1974
KAISHA ESTY, WHITNEY FIELDS, AND CARIE RAEL
PART II
Student Protest and Forceful Change
5 A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers-Newark
BEATRICE J. ADAMS, JESSE BAYKER, ROBERTO C. OROZCO, AND BROOKE A. THOMAS
6 Equality in Higher Education: An Analysis of Negative Responses to the Conklin Hall Takeover
KENNETH MORRISSEY
7 The Black Unity League: A Necessary Movement That Could Never Survive
EDWARD WHITE
8 "We the People": Student Activism at Rutgers and Livingston College, 1960-1985
TRACEY JOHNSON, CARIE RAEL, AND BROOKE A. THOMAS
PART III
Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973-2007
9 "It's Happening in Our Own Backyard": Rutgers and the New Brunswick Defense Committee for Assata Shakur
JOSEPH KAPLAN
10 Fight Racism, End Apartheid: The Divestment Movement at Rutgers University and the Limits of Interracial Organizing, 1977-1985
TRACEY JOHNSON
11 "Hell No, Our Genes Aren't Slow!": Racism and Antiracism at Rutgers during the 1995 Controversy
MEAGAN WIERDA AND ROBERTO C. OROZCO
12 "Pure Grace": The Scarlet Knights Basketball Team, Don Imus, and a Moment of Dignity
LYNDA DEXHEIMER
Epilogue: Scarlet and Black: The Price of the Ticket
DEBORAH GRAY WHITE
Acknowledgments
Notes
List of Contributors
About the Editors
