BERKELEY, Calif. – Black students at the University of California Berkeley are sick of feeling like they don’t belong, and some voiced their concerns about discrimination and exclusion on campus with a list of demands to university officials last year.

Now, after 15 months of pressure on officials led by the Black Student Union and the Afrikan Black Coalition, black students at UC Berkeley have what they want: a special “safe space” resource center just for black students where they can segregate themselves from their classmates, The Daily Californian reports.

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A new agreement signed by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and BSU leader Elias Hinit in July created the Fannie Lou Hammer Resource Center in five rooms of the Hearst Field Annex to serve the “academic, social, cultural, and political” needs of the university’s black students. As part of the deal, Dirks designated $82,885 to renovate and furnish the building, and agreed to assign two black staffers to man the facility, according to the news site.

The agreement is set to run for five years, and “if the campus does not identify a permanent space for the center by 2021, the agreement stipulates that the Center will remain in the Hearst Annex for the next five years,” Jet Magazine reports.

The Afrikan Black Coalition issued a press release yesterday announcing the “monumental and historical” significance of the segregated student space.

The release first highlighted the coalition’s demand in March 2015 that made it all possible:

WE DEMAND the creation of an African-American Student Development Resource Center, to be named the Fannie Lou Hamer Resource Center, with a designated office space as well as space for hosting events, at a central campus location. This center is to be under the purview of the African-American Student Development Office.

“Make no mistake; this center was not an easy win by any means,” former BSU chairwoman Gabrielle Shuman said in a prepared statement. “Black students and staff have been fighting battles for a space like this for decades. We sacrificed a great deal of time, sleep, studying, and even class attendance to make sure we could catch every calculated curveball thrown at us during this process.”

The news release also noted that the center has not yet secured an operating budget, though the BSU and Afrikan Black Coalition has requested the funding from Dirks.

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“Our budget plan asserts that the Fannie Lou Hamer Resource Center needs a permanent annual allocation of $547,500 to be used for five full time staff members, fifteen part-time student staff, and programming & equipment needs,” the statement read.

“The Chancellor has stated that he will consider this budget proposal. The 2016-2017 Black Student Union leadership will be following up on this matter once the fall semester begins.”

In other words, the groups will undoubtedly protest for the funds, if necessary. And they now have a special space to organize those protests. The goal of the entire project, of course, is “black liberation.”

“Our vision has always been that the Fannie Lou Hamer Resource Center will serve as the central organizing and galvanizing space to meet the academic, social, cultural, and political needs of the Black community,” according to the coalition.

“We hope that the Center will help sustain the Black community and produce brilliant leaders such as that of its namesake, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer; the kind of leaders who are determined, fearless, and resolute in the struggle for Black liberation.”

Cori McGowens, last year’s BSU chairman, said it’s critical for blacks to segregate themselves from other students to continue their fight for inclusion.

“Black people, no matter our location, need a space of our own in order to heal, create, build and decompress,” he said in the release. “This campus has a wide array of Black leaders who will be able to utilize this space to continue to do the work of our people.”