Source Collection
This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library:
Allen Building Takeover collection 1969-2002
Collection #UA.31.04.0005 | 1 Linear Feet
ABSTRACT
On February 13, 1969, Duke University
students in the Afro-American Society occupied the the main administration building to bring
attention to the needs of black students. These needs included an African American studies
department, a black student union, and increased enrollment and financial support for black
students. This and subsequent events became known as the Allen Building Takeover. The Allen
Building Takeover Collection contains announcements, flyers, publications, correspondence,
handouts, reports, transcripts, ephemera, clippings, a bibliography, photographs documenting
Black Culture Week (Feb. 4-12, 1969), the Allen Building Takeover (Feb. 13, 1969), student
demands, statements by Provost Marcus Hobbs and by Duke President Douglas Knight, student
convocations and demonstrations both in support of and against the Takeover, and later
events on the Duke campus and in Durham, N.C. In addition, the collection contains clippings
and artwork related to remembering the Takeover, including the 2002 Allen Building lock-in.
Major subjects include African American students and civil rights demonstrations.
English.
