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As legal battles drag out, and possibly work their way up to a firmly conservative Supreme Court, the school is at an ...
This copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family’s patriarch. PHOTO ...
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 will give up a pair of photographs of an enslaved man and his daughter after agreeing to settle a lawsuit over ...