Duke Conference on Universities, Monuments, and the Legacy of Slavery

I’m very much looking forward to Duke’s conference on universities, race, and memory on March 30 and 31.  Lots and lots to talk about.  The illustration is the Confederate Monument at the Durham County Courthouse, which was taken down last August.   I'm guessing we'll be talking a whole big bunch about that.  And I'm going to commit myself to getting a draft of my essay about the Yale Law Journal's support for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment (in 1903) up by the time of the conference.  Because when we're talking about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow at universities, that's an important and almost-completely forgotten part of the story.  (My friends Jack Chin and Mary Ellen Maatman being I think the two exceptions to this forgetting.)