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We would like to give credit to the following for the images used to create this website.
Land Acknowledgment and The Land: Image courtesy of Rythum Vinoben.
Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle: All images courtesy of Rythum Vinoben.
About the Report: What More Work Still Has Yet to Be Done? - Image courtesy of Maiyah Rivers.
In 2016, students marched in solidarity with the #OURCampus Movement calling for Brown University to become a Sanctuary Campus. Students also walked out in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.
Reflections on the Report: Images courtesy of Rythum Vinoben.
Timeline of Student Action: The Blacks at Brown timeline was created "to celebrate Brown University National Diversity Summit, March 6-8, 2015. Thanks to all who participated in this effort:
Karen Allen Baxter – Curator
Renee Neely – Archivist
Shamara Alhassan – Graduate Student Assistant
Reya Sehgal – Graduate Student Assistant
Hong Chau, Giovi Roz, Melwyn Pak – CIS Academic Technology
With special assistance from Harold Bailey ’70, Bernicestine McLeod Bailey ’68."
Please visit the Blacks at Brown blog that was created to accompany the timeline here.
Slavery in Rhode Island: "The Economic Activities of the Narragansett Planters" Ernest Hamlin Baker, 1939. Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service.
"Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam" John Greenwood, c. 1752–58, oil on bed ticking, 37 3/4 x 75 in. (95.9 x 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 256:1948.
These images are from an exhibition curated by the Center in 2017, Makers Unknown: Material Objects and the Enslaved.
Native Peoples in Rhode Island: Images courtesy of Danielle Perelman.
On October 9, 2015, students came together in solidarity with Native students at Brown during their staged “die-in” on campus. The protest was organized to pay tribute to the resistance of Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas. Originally the University recognized the second Monday in October as Columbus Day, and after pushback in 2009 from students and faculty, administrators changed the name on the academic calendar to Fall Weekend, still ignoring Indigenous presence throughout history. However, following this 2015 protest, Brown University officially renamed the Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous People’s Day.
University Hall: The first slideshow of images is courtesy of Rythum Vinoben. The images of "Negro Cloth," the statue of Esek Hopkins and the Esek Hopkins house are courtesy of Maiyah Rivers. The image of the log of the Sally is courtesy of the Brown University Archives.
"Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam" John Greenwood, c. 1752–58, oil on bed ticking, 37 3/4 x 75 in. (95.9 x 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 256:1948.
Image of Esek Hopkins Middle School courtesy of NBC 10 WJAR News and image of the Stephen Hopkins house and plaque sourced from public domain.
Slavery Memorial: Images in slide show courtesy of Rythum Vinoben and Maiyah Rivers. Image of Martin Puryear courtesy of Puryear's website.
Page Robinson Hall: Image courtesy of Rythum Vinoben. The slideshow of images featuring Black students during the 1968 Black Student Walkout is courtesy of the Brown University Archives.
Inman Edward Page, 1979
Richard Yarde
Courtesy of Brown University Portrait Collection
Ethel Robinson, 2017
Jenna Laycraft
Courtesy of Brown University Portrait Collection
Images of letters from George Washington Milford to William Lloyd Garrison courtesy of The Boston Public Library through Digital Commonwealth, Massachusetts Collections Online.
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice: Images courtesy of Rythum Vinoben.
Libraries and Archives: Images courtesy of Maiyah Rivers.