Updates from the Network Discovering the Real Legacy of Slavery at Franklin & Marshall College 19 Oct 202319 Oct 2023 The two namesakes of Franklin & Marshall College were both enslavers. The statues of John Marshall (right) and Benjamin Franklin (left) were wrapped in tarps after being vandalized in 2021.…
Reflections… Incarceration and the Afterlife of Slavery: How a College and a Prison in Illinois Use Art to Reckon with the Past and Present 5 Oct 20234 Oct 2023 Guest contributor: Tennille Nicole Allen* It takes me four minutes to drive the five miles from the gates of Lewis University, where I chair the sociology department, to the gates…
Links and Resources… 5 Things We’ve Added to the Resource Database 29 Jun 202329 Jun 2023 The Resource Database aspires to be a one-stop portal for all things related to the legacies of slavery at CIC member institutions. The Resource Database already includes a wide range…
Links and Resources… Legacies links for June 26, 2023: racial healing, affirmative action, and other legal legacies 27 Jun 202328 Jun 2023 A day late, but we're still catching up from the Juneteenth hiatus! As always, we encourage you to share it with friends, students, colleagues, etc. A link does not imply…
Updates from the Network How to Organize a Racial Reckoning Trip, Independent College Edition 22 Jun 202322 Jun 2023 As colleges and universities continue to reckon with a slaveholding past, some institutions have designed study trips to places where the legacies of slavery are still very much alive and…
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…
