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Cornell today faces challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion measures and controversies over antisemitism and Islamophobia, while its admissions process adapts to the overturn of affirmative action.
At the height of the Civil War, 9-year-old George W. Fields made a daring escape to freedom with his family. He’d go on to become a member of Cornell Law School’s first graduating class, in 1890.
After graduating with a degree in botany in 1890, Jane Eleanor Datcher taught chemistry at the first – and best – public high school in the U.S. for Black youth and helped organize regional and national networks for Black women.
At age 36, George Washington Fields graduated as a member of the first class of Cornell Law School, the school’s first Black graduate and the only formerly enslaved person to graduate from Cornell.
Hidden History with Brian Bullock uncovers the daring escape of enslaved woman Martha Anne Fields and her family from Hanover, VA 89 miles to Fort Monroe.