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Harvard gives up slave photos amid descendant's legal fight
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 agrees to transfer photos of enslaved people to black history museum
The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a ...
After 15-year battle, Harvard agrees in settlement to relinquish early slave photos
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people ...
Harvard to give 175-year-old photos of enslaved people to South Carolina museum
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia. The photos were believed ...
The New York Times17d
Harvard Relents After Protracted Fight Over Slave Photos
A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina. By Clyde ...
Reuters17d
Harvard to relinquish photos of enslaved people to resolve descendant's lawsuit
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 ...