On February 13th, 1969, approximately 60 Duke students occupied the first floor of the Allen Building to protest the university’s failure to meet the needs of black students. Their demands included the creation of a black studies program, a summer transitional program for black freshmen, and a black student union.
View PostThe Living History program is an innovative interview platform, oral history archive and media lab. We’re researching and creating new ways to use recorded interviews as tools for investigating, understanding and narrating current events and issues. The program is part of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
The Rutherfurd Living History Program's archives of newsmakers, news breakers, and more, running back to the early 1970s.
Browse InterviewsGroups of interviews clustered around a topic, including voting rights in North Carolina and rural poverty in the South.
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