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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques. Many in the Ole Miss community talk about tradition, she said, and often use it as a crutch. “Is Instead, it will be renamed.

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