Friday, June 10, 2016

Old Merritt Junior College

by Sara Azgui-Colwell



Old Merritt Junior College was located at 57th Street and Martin Luther King Junior Way (formerly Grove Street). It is now the site of Children's Hospital Oakland.  Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and David Hilliard all went to college here.  The City of Oakland decided to move Merritt to the Oakland Hills because city officials did not like all of the activism going on in such a central place.

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