Student Life
Collaborators are recovering histories of Washington University students amid slavery, its wake, and the struggle for freedom. This includes examination of 19th and 20th century student organizations and publications including The Irving Union (first publised in 1869), Student Life (1878), and The Hatchet yearbook (1903).
Spotlight: Black vs. Railroad - WashU Law Students' Blackface Moot Court, 1903
Pictured: St. Louis Dispatch article describing white student and faculty opposition to the inclusion of African American students at Washington University's Manual Training School (May 5, 1892)
