Johns Hopkins University faculty and others explore the complexities of archival research and scholarship as part of a long-term examination of the institution of slavery and its legacies at universities
Campus buildings, facilities to be named for Ernest Bates, Florence Bascom, Frederick Scott, and Levi Watkins in recognition of their achievements and contributions to the university
Recommendations from a report authored by the Committee to Establish Principles on Naming include the creation of a Name Review Board made up of representatives from across the Hopkins community
Census records and additional research provide evidence that Johns Hopkins was a slaveholder during the mid-1800s, in contrast to the longstanding narrative that he was an early abolitionist whose father freed the family's enslaved people decades earlier
The work of the Committee to Establish Principles on Naming will shape future decisions about how and whether to alter the names of existing facilities, professorships, scholarships, fellowships, and programs