Harvard University, like most schools in the Ivy League, has deep ties to the transatlantic slave trade.
, which sought to segregate those seen as “genetically inferior.”
Just as legacies of slavery continued to shape campus life long after the Civil War and well into the twentieth century, so too did Black resistance. Throughout the postbellum era and into the twentieth century, Black students confronted and resisted marginalization, earning their Harvard educations and, ultimately, reshaping the nation.
During his time at Harvard, Du Bois’s financial struggles set him even further apart from many of his white classmates. As an undergraduate, he had to rely on outside funding and charitable loans to cover tuition and living expenses. Unable to afford student housing, he did not live on campus; and his landlady, Mary Taylor, a Black woman from Nova Scotia, let him “owe the rent.
Another piece from Du Bois’s graduate student years, “Harvard and the South,” not only illustrates his willingness to enter the fraught discourse on the post–Civil War South but also offers glimpses into his experience, having been privy to intellectual discussions in which he was uniquely implicated because of his race.
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