At the first public event of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice last month, committee members said they hoped questions from the audience would grapple with Brown's historic ties to the slave trade and the University's current responsibility to come to terms with that legacy.
It's been almost one year since President Ruth Simmons established the University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and almost eight months since Brown Alumni Monthly reported on it.
In the midst of substantial media coverage, Brown's new Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice commenced its public work Thursday night with a panel discussion titled "Unearthing the Past: Brown University, the Brown Family and the Rhode Island Slave Trade."
The University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice begins its Fall 2004 programming tonight with a lecture by John Hope Franklin, the African American historian who experienced the Tulsa race riots of 1921, worked as a researcher on Thurgood Marshall's Brown v. Board of Education team, marched ...
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