New Africa House received its name in Spring 1969, when a gang of "frat boys" attacked a group of black students and forced them to take shelter in Mills House. They barricaded themselves in, and were soon joined by other black students from around campus, who made the building their own.
The building is no longer a dorm, but is now home to the WEB DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies and the Augusta Savage Gallery.
The house was originally named for Professor George F. Mills, hired in 1889 to teach English, literature, Latin and rhetoric. Mills was a M.A.C. treasurer from 1892-1907 when he appointed the first head of the division of Humanities and the first dean of the College.
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