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20: 951: 531: 963: 160:. The students also demanded that Knight appoint a committee of students, faculty, and workers to make recommendations concerning collective bargaining and union recognition at Duke. Knight received the students during the protest, and invited them into the house, spending the entire night negotiating the terms of their demands. 142:, kicked-off with 450 students marching two miles from campus to Knight House to deliver a list of demands to Douglas Knight for a restructuring of Duke University, so that the institution would be less threatening to 107:
also lived at Knight House. Knight House is 10,655 square feet, and cost $ 379,971 to build. The house is a low-slung home with ribbed copper roof caps. The interior pannelling in the house is made from
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and is now used by the university as an event space, conference facility, and guest house. On April 6, 1968, following the
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Located along Academy Road and Pinecrest Road, near the Duke golf course, the house sits on 436 acres in the
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students and employees. The demands included that Knight publish an advertisement in the
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Modernist
Durham, North Carolina
Alden B. Dow
Duke University
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Silent Vigil at Duke University
Douglas M. Knight
Douglas Knight
Alden B. Dow
Modernist style
Pullen Park
Raleigh, North Carolina
Douglas Knight
Terry Sanford
Nannerl O. Keohane
bald cypress
Duke Forest
Duke University West Campus
J. Deryl Hart House
Richard H. Brodhead
Silent Vigil at Duke University
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
African-American
Durham Morning Herald
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hope Valley Country Club


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