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To a South Carolina museum, in a long-awaited legal battle conclusion, Harvard will give up a collection containing 175-year-old photos of Black slaves in the U.S. South. These are the earliest ...
A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...
Harvard University has agreed to turn over 175-year-old photographs of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina, ending ...
The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...
Harvard calls the situation "complex" as they still have not been able to confirm Lanier's relation to the enslaved persons.
Harvard turns over 175-year-old photos believed to be the earliest photos of enslaved people to an African American museum in ...
A key question of the case was whether Harvard could legally be allowed to continue owning dehumanizing images of enslaved ...
Harvard will give up a pair of photographs of an enslaved man and his daughter after agreeing to settle a lawsuit over ...
Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in ...
The legal fight over the images took on outsize importance as storied universities such as Harvard and Georgetown grappled with their ties to slavery.