The slave trade was used to fund American universities. Scholars are looking to recover the lost stories of the enslaved humans who built some of America’s oldest institutions.
- Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
The novel’s two main characters represent the constitutional conundrum that many Americans grappled with in the pre-civil rights era.
What message does it send when we remove symbols of an unsavory – but important – part of American history?
Does the Confederate flag tell African American citizens that they are inferior? And if so, does that violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
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