Tag: American slavery

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Congress Passes Bill Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

Congress has passed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth –June 19 every year – marks the true end of slavery in the U.S., June 19, 1865, when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed freedom from slavery in Texas, nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday has been celebrated in 47 states […]

June 16, 2021

United States Capitol

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Clemson University Works to Identify 604 Unmarked Graves in Campus Cemetery

Clemson University is working to learn the identities of those buried in 604 unmarked graves on its campus’ Woodland Cemetery, Greenville News reported. The graves may date back more than 200 years ago and may belong to “enslaved peoples, domestic workers, sharecroppers and convict laborers who lived, worked and died on the university’s land in […]

November 4, 2020

Woodland Cemetary

Lawsuit Against Harvard for its Alleged Prison Industry Investments

The Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign filed a suit against Harvard University on Wednesday over the institution’s alleged investments in companies with ties to the prison industry, reported campus newspaper The Harvard Crimson. The suit was filed in Massachusetts state court. “By continuing to profit off the caging of people, Harvard violates its legal duty to […]

February 20, 2020

MSU Libraries to Digitize Records of Enslaved Mississippians

Mississippi State University (MSU) Libraries said it plans to digitize records of enslaved Mississippians for the first time. The libraries are helping create the state’s first institutionally-supported digital database intended to give greater access to legal records identifying victims of slavery. The endeavor, called the Lantern Project, is one of only a few in the […]

February 19, 2020

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How Dr. Hasan Jeffries is Rethinking the Way We Teach Black History

As a teenager in 1980s Brooklyn, Dr. Hasan Jeffries tried piecing together two different stories: the history he was learning in school and the events he was witnessing on the train to and from school. But they didn’t fit.

February 7, 2020

Southern University Law Center Joins ‘Universities Studying Slavery’, a 40+ School Consortium

Southern University Law Center (SULC) is the latest of 40+ schools to join a consortium titled Universities Studying Slavery (USS). Organized through the University of Virginia, the consortium addresses historical and contemporary issues related to race and inequality in higher education as well as how the complicated legacy of slavery still shapes modern American society. […]

February 6, 2020

University of Cincinnati to Remove Slave Owner’s Name From its College of Arts and Sciences

The University of Cincinnati (UC) board of trustees unanimously voted to discontinue the school’s association with the name of slave owner Charles McMicken, reported The Cincinnati Enquirer. Upon dying in 1858, McMicken donated his land to the city of Cincinnati, requesting that a college be built “for the education of White boys and girls” on […]

December 17, 2019

Harvard Faces Lawsuit from Enslaved Man’s Descendant

The great-great-great granddaughter of an enslaved man named Renty has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, alleging that the institution repeatedly ignored requests to stop licensing pictures of her descendants for the university’s profit, and stop misrepresenting her great-great-great grandfather.

March 20, 2019

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