National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
Complete 8-page issue of the Black Observer newsletter from Camden, NJ, circa fall 1969. The precise date is not printed on the issue. Rutgers-Camden students affiliated with the Black Student Unity Movement (BSUM) produced this paper for the community. Names of the editors and contributors printed on the back page are Roy Jones, Marie Spearman, Faye Waters, Myrna Williams, Vince Mayfield, Carolyn Williams, Ralph Spencer, Richard Rhodes, Alice Syms, Linda Ellis, R. Eugene Kirkland, Lillian Matthews, Fredia Bodie, Betty Coleman. A letter from Aaron G. Thompson on behalf of the Rutgers BSUM is printed on page 5.
Double-sided flyer for a December 22, 1969, event with Charles "Poppy" Sharp, chairman of the Black People's Unity Movement (BPUM) in Camden, sponsored by the United Black Front. The front of the flyer has an image of Sharp and event details. The back of the page reads "Fight Racism Support the Black Community" and tells Rutgers-Camden students to meet up in front of the College Center 45 minutes before the event and walk to the Parkside Community Center together.
Rectangular button with an artist sketch of Downtown Camden and the Ben Franklin Bridge with the Phialdelphia skyline in the background the the word "Rutgers Cadmen" in the upper right hand corner.
Camden residential street with construction. Scaffolding in front of buildings on left side of street. Housing on the right side of the street. Street parked with cars.
Rutgers students started the bilingual "North Camden County Crier" after a local newsletter was dropped. The aim was to eventually turn it over to local community members and to make a small-town newspaper for the inner city.
Because of a lack of funding and opportunities, Camden has not had much culture (meaning art, theater, history, community engagement). However, with the help of Rutgers, new performances are starting to pop up, and will eventually move to the soon-to-be-built auditorium.
Donald E. Saunders partcipated in the Whitman Day program, an all day event co-sponsored by the State University and the Walt Whitman Association of Camden.
Ralph A. Dungan, State Chancellor of Higher Education, warns Rutgers students to stay calm about "urban problems" and that they should stay "calm and dispassionate." He also advocated for students to approve a state bond issue that would pay more towards higher education. The article is accompanied by a photograph of Ralph A. Dungan together with W. Layton Hall, Dean of Rutgers College of South Jersey, and Barry M. Millett, Dean of Students.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
Rutgers Bureau of Community Services started a new program funded by a grant from the New Jersey State Council. The program, Grassroots "71," is a community oriented arts program for young children.
Reporting on a meeting between Dr. Gross and angry parents, the Bulletin author notes that while Gross rejected the need for violence, he did not believe that should prevent them from examining the claims of those students. He also noted that the situation in Camden was different than that in other schools with protests, and believed that calling the police would have only escalated the violence.
Miniature ceramic version of Nipper the dog from the logo of His Master's Voice record company. Given out for the opening of the Victor apartments by Dranoff.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
Democratic candidate for the governorship, Ned Parsekian, speaks at Rutgers campus about the housing crisis. He encourages all local Democrats to participate in his campaign.
Despite protests nationwide, Camden supposedly remained protest-free, a fact that the article attributes to the close relationship between the campus and its city. The students aren't complacent, though, being involved in local programs and improving the campus through other measures.
Alfred R. Pierce, the mayor of Camden, supported the chief of police in his decision to send police officers to Rutgers Camden when any protests occurred, regardless of whether or not the school invited them. This decision comes on the wings of a Black student takeover of one of the buildings the week previous.
Rendering of an early 19th-century proposed plan for a bridge that would span part of the Delaware River from Camden to Windmill Island, opposite Philadelphia (Windmill Island was removed via dredging in the 1890s and no longer exists). Formally proposed in 1818, this bridge was never actually built. Another century passed before work on a bridge connecting Camden and Philadelphia actually started.
This rendering may have been originally created as early as 1813, according to the information published by the Free Library of Philadelphia, where a copy of this rendering appears in the Castner Scrapbook.
The new United Christian Fellowship is succeeding, and many students are living in UCF housing. Some are planning on a "live-in," where they will work with the North Camden Metropolitan Ministry on inner city issues and learn more about their city.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
Rutgers Student, Rebecca Levy, works as a community worker in an elementary school program sponsored by "Students for Inner City Development of Education" and "Rutgers Bureau of Community Services"
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
A tall Red brick building is photographed from a height, through tree branches. Between the photographer and the building, there is a short brick building with garage doors
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
The article discusses the incoming Dungan Report on the Rutgers situation, and interviews a few students, who all seem to agree that the real issue at hand is lack of spending on education and Rutgers not admitting enough Black students despite being located in a majority Black community.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
National Collegiate Athletic Association and Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides $22,000 to facilitate a youth sports program in the Camden Community. The University hopes that by providing an outlet, it can help improve the local community.
