About the Slavery, Race and Memory Project
Wake Forest University, as a southern institution founded decades before the Civil War, has a history bound up with slavery and its tragic legacies. Attempts to recover, understand and reckon more fully with that complex past have accelerated in recent years and are collected in a many-faceted Slavery, Race, and Memory Project. This effort extends across and beyond our Winston-Salem and original Wake Forest, N.C., campuses and includes active membership in the Universities Studying Slavery consortium.
Wake Forest University joined the Universities Studying Slavery consortium to help us understand and acknowledge the role enslaved peoples had in building and growing our University. The “Slavery, Race and Memory Project” will guide the research, preservation, and communication of an accurate depiction of the University’s relationship to slavery and its implications across Wake Forest’s history.
Upcoming Affiliate Events
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April 24, 2025 | 4:00pm
Salem HallA lecture with History professor Dr. Charles Thomas. Reception to follow. -
April 24, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterSpring Student Choreographic Concert Directed by Tina Yarborough Liggins April 24-26 at 7:30 pm & April 27 at 2:00 pm The Spring Student Choreographic Concert will feature selected work by student choreographers under the direction of Tina Yarborough Liggins. The Spring Concert gives WFU students the opportunity to present their … -
April 29, 2025 | 4:30pm
Wait ChapelThe Office of Diversity and Inclusion will sponsor an event on Tuesday, April 29th, from 4:30-5:00 p.m. to commemorate the enslaved individuals who worked for or were sold to benefit the institution that would become Wake Forest University. Wait Chapel, Front Steps (Rain Location: Inside the Chapel)
SRMP Update
SRMP’s focus is shifting in 2024 to academic endeavors – to be reflected in forthcoming curricular, co-curricular, scholarly and public history-oriented engagements. To orient this shift, SRMP is reorganizing its commitment to a new charge by organizing our efforts into 5 new working groups.
Please follow this link for more information.
Campus Memorial Update
Please visit the Campus Memorial website for an update and to view sketches of Conceptual Themes.
Edited by Corey D.B. Walker