Updates from the Network Don’t Say Their Names? What Happens When College Buildings Bear the Names of Racists 26 Apr 202326 Apr 2023 What's in a name? It's difficult—sometimes even wrenching—for institutions of higher learning to reconsider the names and legacies of founders, donors, and other individuals who are prominently featured on their…
Updates from the Network Update from Austin College 8 Mar 20237 Mar 2023 George Hughes (left), shortly before he was lynched by a white mob in Sherman, Texas (1930). Rioters also burned down the county courthouse and a significant portion of the Black…
Reflections… Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute Debuts “Spirit of Freedom” 2 Mar 20232 Mar 2023 We are thrilled to share the news about an exciting new digital history site from Shenandoah University (an Institutional Affiliate of the Legacies of American Slavery network) — “The Spirit…
Links and Resources… Happy Mardi Gras! 21 Feb 2023 To help celebrate Mardi Gras we asked Zella Palmer, director of Dillard University’s Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture and a leading scholar of African American foodways, to…
Updates from the Network Centenary College Students Work to Diversify Anatomical Models 1 Feb 20231 Feb 2023 Centenary College of Louisiana students Jazmine Carroll, Yosajandy Bouslog, and April Jones at the Centenary Research Conference in April 2022. One of their diversified anatomical models is visible on the…
Updates from the Network Touring the Legacies of Slavery in Shreveport, LA: Race, Health, and Medicine 27 Jan 202326 Jan 2023 Centenary College of Louisiana student Jayla Washington speaks to the tour group at Oakland Cemetery in Shreveport, Louisiana. This post has been reprinted with permission from Centenary Magazine (December 2022).…
Links and Resources… Legacies links for January 9, 2023: independent colleges (and others) explore the afterlives of slavery 9 Jan 2023 We’re back with new links for a new year (but reaching back into late 2022, while we were on a break). As always, we encourage you to share this post.…
Links and Resources… Legacies links for December 7, 2022: Recent Scholarship on the Afterlives of Slavery 7 Dec 20224 Dec 2022 Normally, we post the weekly links on Mondays. The schedule may be a little erratic for the next few weeks, thanks to the holidays and CIC's upcoming Presidents Institute. As…
Links and Resources… Legacies links for November 28, 2022: News from CIC members and other curated links 28 Nov 202228 Nov 2022 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link here does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. In 1937, Japanese émigré Eitaro Ishigaki…
Featured Video… What is “Contested Citizenship”? 7 Nov 20226 Nov 2022 Election week is always an appropriate time to think about the ongoing struggle for voting rights and the legacy of American slavery. There has never been an easy path towards…
