Takeover of the Allen Building

Being a subscriber on Flickr to Duke University Archive’s “Duke Yearlook” photostream, some pretty cool stuff comes up on my home page at Flickr. Today I learned about the 1969 takeover of the Allen Building, which is today (and presumably was then, too) an epicenter for the University administration. Apparently black students on campus were tired of the University dragging their feet – tired of going through the so-called “proper channels” for over 2.
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