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The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a descendant of the people pictured.
Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia. The photos were believed ...
Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...
Tamara Lanier, left, holds a photo of her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, and talks with attorney Ben Crump, center, and Susanna Moore, the great-great-great-granddaughter of the Harvard ...
She sued Harvard for ownership of the photos in 2019. The images were part ... others in the photographs are known “as a matter of historical record,” but there are currently no plans to ...
The photos will not go to Lanier ... direction towards fully acknowledging that history and working to rectify it." Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard said it had long been eager to place ...
“This is a moment in history where the sons and daughters ... at a 2017 conference and in other uses. It said Harvard has capitalized on the photos by demanding a “hefty” licensing fee ...
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