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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January 20, 2025 | 7:30pm
Wait ChapelFounder and Artistic Director Alexander Lloyd Blake (Wake Forest ’10) created Tonality to connect people through song, using choral music to stimulate community conversations about important issues in the contemporary world. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the 2024 GRAMMY-winning vocal ensemble will present their “America Will Be” … -
February 7, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterDead Man’s Cell Phone By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Brook Davis February 7-8 & 13-15 at 7:30 pm & February 9 & 16 at 2:00 pm Ring Theatre When Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone premiered in 2007, the play questioned our connections, our disconnections, and how our … -
February 13, 2025 | 4:00pm
Z. Smith Reynolds LibraryThe Program in African American Studies at Wake Forest University is pleased to host a book talk and conversation with professor and author Melvin Rogers. This conversation will be moderated by Claire Crawford, Assistant Professor in the Program of African American Studies and Department of Politics, and Daniel Henry, …
Upcoming SRMP Events
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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.
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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