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

  • November 7, 2024 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    By Caryl Churchill; Directed by Stephen Wrentmore. Love and Information invites us to consider how we ‘know’ and how that knowledge informs our human experience.  A montage of vignettes and a collage of over 100 characters creates an ingenious and inventive commentary on the information age. …
  • November 21, 2024 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Fall Faculty & Guest Artist Concert Directed by Nina Lucas Rice November 21-23 at 7:30 pm & November 24 at 2:00 pm   The Fall Faculty & Guest Artist Concert will feature modern, jazz, contemporary and classical ballet choreography by our dance faculty and renowned guest choreographers, under the direction …
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Upcoming SRMP Events

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Campus Memorial Update

Please visit the Campus Memorial website for an update and to view sketches of Conceptual Themes.

To Stand With and For Humanity
Essays from the Wake Forest University Slavery, Race and Memory Project

Edited by Corey D.B. Walker