Colleges & Universities

University of Mississippi –  Oxford, Mississippi

University of Mississippi’s Library 2016 (Author Mmblevin1, October 04, 2016,
(CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikipedia Commons)

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Associated Press, “Plaques at Ole Miss acknowledge its historic ties to slavery,” The Grio, March 08, 2018.

David DeMar, “Slaves Helped Build University of Mississippi,” New Historian, October 19, 2016.

Hadley Hitson, “Slavery Research Group explores history of slavery at UM with campus tour,” The Dmonline, April 19, 2018.

Mississippi, William Lewis Sharkey, Samuel Stillman Boyd, Henry T. Ellett, William Littleton Harris. The Revised Code of the Statute Laws of
the State of Mississippi Hein’s superseded state statutes & codes. (E. Barksdale, State printer, 1857).

Timothy W. Ryback, “What Ole Miss Can Teach Universities About Grappling with Their Pasts,” The Atlantic, September 19, 2017.

“University of Mississippi to post sign recognizing slave labor on campus,” CBS News, July 6, 2017.

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Andres Jauegui, “Up To 2,000 Bodies Now Thought to Be Buried On University of Mississippi Land, Officials Say,” Huffington Post, February 13, 2014.

Jerry Mitchell, The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, “7,000 bodies could be buried on Mississippi campus,” USA Today, May 06, 2017.

Lilly Workneh, “University of Mississippi discovers up to 2,000 graves buried on campus,” The Grio.com, February 17, 2014.

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University of Mississippi seeks to put its dark history into context – [Min: 1:21]

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