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Emory’s Pitts Theology Library is part of a network of institutions restoring and mapping a forgotten African American cemetery in Greene County, as well as creating an archive for Georgia’s historic rural churches.
Penfield Cemetery dates back to the 1820s or ’30s and operated through the 1950s. At some point, someone called for […] The post Emory University commits to clearing, identifying African American gravestones appeared first on TheGrio.
Every year Mercer students make a Pilgrimage to Penfield. However, there were a few changes made to the experience in order to acknowledge and more fully teach students about Mercer's complex history.
Around the country, colleges and universities are beginning to work through their historical relationships to the institution of slavery. Sometimes the history is well documented, even if ignored. In other cases, the connection between higher learning and slavery requires some detective work.