by lindaoppenheim | Jan 1, 2019 | Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
William C. Anderson’s essay is “A reflection on the commodification of Jim Crow’s violence through public memorials. It’s imperative for those paying respects to understand and interrogate civil rights museums, memorials, and any other commemorations of...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 28, 2018 | Call to Action, Opinion, Truth and Reconciliation
“The Princeton Reconstruction Project is comprised of concerned students calling for an active Reconstruction of Princeton University — an intentional pivot from its roots as a White supremacist institution to one that reflects the current values it...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 8, 2018 | Article, history, Truth and Reconciliation
Renee Gokey (Eastern Shawnee/Sac and Fox/Miami) and Dennis W. Zotigh (Kiowa/San Juan Pueblo/Santee Dakota Indian) summarize the history of Columbus Day and the growing movement to replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Their article lists the states and...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 26, 2018 | Events, Truth and Reconciliation
In conjunction with Historical Society of Princeton, Princeton Public Library, Arts Council of Princeton, and Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society, Morven is honored to host a Slave Dwelling Project www.slavedwellingproject.org/ Program Oct 12 and 13;...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 16, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
Journalists John Eligon and Trymaine Lee recently toured Southern states to take a measure of attitudes toward preserving the history of the Confederacy and slavery. Among those interviewed were descendants of enslavers, including Jefferson Davis, and enslaved. ...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 7, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
“[I]t took 52 years for historical markers to be erected at locations related to the teenager’s death, which galvanized the civil rights movement after the acquittal. And now, at the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days...
