On November 6–7, 2015, nearly 450 people attended the conference Black on the Banks: African-American Students in the 1960s. During the 60s and 70s, a small group of pioneering African-American students enrolled at Rutgers College and Douglass College. This two-day forum explored the challenges that these students faced and the achievements that became their legacy, as well as the broader issue of equity and access in higher education during this time