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The Black experience at Princeton University from 1746 to the Present

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Nobel Laureate delivers keynote address and has a conversation with Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University on November 17, 2017 (see: https://www.facebook.com/PrincetonU/videos/10155990385075774/).

Impressions of Liberty by Titus Kaphar, a large-scale installation in wood and glass, is on display on the lawn adjacent to Princeton University's Maclean House until December 17, 2017. The work represents intertwined portraits of the Princeton Pres… — Impressions of Liberty by Titus Kaphar, a large-scale installation in wood and glass, is on display on the lawn adjacent to Princeton University's Maclean House until December 17, 2017. The work represents intertwined portraits of the Princeton President Samuel Finley and three African Americans he enslaved who were auctioned off on this very spot upon his death in 1766.

Joshua Bennett, speaking at a ceremoney on Alumni Day 2016, was one of four winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's top honor for graduate students. (Photo Courtesy of Princeton University)

Booker T. Washington in a 1916 Princeton, New Jersey photo sitting in the center in front of what many believe to be 20 Green Street, a home slated for demolition in the 2016 version of the gentrification of the town's black community.  Bob Riv… — Booker T. Washington in a 1916 Princeton, New Jersey photo sitting in the center in front of what many believe to be 20 Green Street, a home slated for demolition in the 2016 version of the gentrification of the town's black community. Bob Rivers '53 writes about it in the Articles Section. (Photo Courtesy of Princeton Historical Society)

The late New York State Supreme Court Judge Bruce Wright is the subject of a Daily Princetonian article that discusses his being denied admission to Princeton in the 1930s when it was discovered that he was black. See Articles Section. (Photo Courte… — The late New York State Supreme Court Judge Bruce Wright is the subject of a Daily Princetonian article that discusses his being denied admission to Princeton in the 1930s when it was discovered that he was black. See Articles Section. (Photo Courtesy of Dith Pran/New York Times)

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