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The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.
Tamara Lanier identified the subjects of the photos as her direct ancestors from South Carolina Harvard University will ...
The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...
Harvard University will relinquish the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, ending a decades-long ...
Tamara Lanier has reached a landmark settlement with Harvard, over 19th-century photos of her enslaved ancestors, Renty and ...
A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...
Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...
The enslaved people in the photos are alleged descendants of Tamara Lanier, who accused Harvard of capitalizing on the images ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.
Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...
Tamara Lanier: When I reflect on 15 years of struggle with Harvard — 15 years of trying to get them to personally acknowledge my legacy, my lineage, and my relationship to Papa Renty ...