Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records 1989-2007

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Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records 1989-2007

The records consist of collected papers, correspondence, and meeting records which document the activities of the Slavery and Justice Steering Committee.

2.25 Linear feet

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6358486

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Brown University. Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

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In 2003, Brown University President Ruth Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The committee, which included faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students, and administrators, was charged to investigate and to prepare a report about the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. It was also asked to organize public programs that might help the campus and the nation reflect on the meaning of this history in the p...

Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...