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Early word of the Symposium:
https://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/annual_symposium/index.php
Members of the list interested in W&M’s investigation of its racial history might enjoy a number of the resources at the Lemon Project site:
https://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/researchandresources/resourcesandresearch/index.php
The contributions come from students, faculty, and community members and cover such things as
— a forgotten local potter’s field where, I think, some of the College’s enslaved workers may be buried
-- the College’s resistance to integration in the 1960’s
— new context for a student newspaper editorial, “Lincoln’s Job Half Done,” that led in 1945 to the suspension of the editor
— eugenics at the College.
One of my own contributions fleshes out one of the people the College enslaved in the 18th C, Winkfield, including what I think are his own words affirming equality with whites.
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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus<http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/>, The College of William and Mary, in Virginia, Williamsburg 23187
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Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?....Well, we can't afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers."
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