The university was originally founded on land donated by notorious slaveholder Stephen A. Douglas. What does it owe the black community that now surrounds its campus?
Author Archives: Reparations at UChicago Working Group
The Reparations at UChicago Working Group (RAUC), which emerged from a recent session of the University of Chicago’s U.S. History Workshop on “Reparations and the Modern University, includes: Ashley Finigan, a PhD candidate in the History Department and residential fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Caine Jordan, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History; Guy Emerson Mount, a Mellon Foundation Fellow and the coordinator of the U.S. History Workshop at the University of Chicago; and Kai Parker, a PhD Candidate in the Department of History.