Rutgers moves to honor slaves, 1st black graduate
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University has renamed two buildings and a walkway as part of an ongoing effort to confront the New Jersey school's historical ties to slavery.
The College Avenue Apartments will now be known as the Sojourner Truth Apartments in honor of the abolitionist and former slave who was owned as a young girl by the family of Rutgers' first president, Jacob Hardenbergh.
The book combines previously documented history with some new details to paint a vivid picture of the university's relationship with slavery, a history school officials say was largely unacknowledged by Rutgers until this year.