Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice Friday Webinars

This collection consists of webinars that showcase the Task Force's archival work and places it within a larger historical context.

In June 2019, David Leebron, President of Rice University, announceed the formation of a Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice. The charge for the Task Force is as follows: 1. Develop and participate in the implementation of a plan for discovering, documenting, acknowledging, and disseminating Rice’s past with respect to slavery, segregation, and racial injustice, as well as an understanding of how that history may continue to inform and shape the present state of the university. 2. Develop campus wide programming to support frank and honest discussion of Rice’s entanglement with slavery, segregation, and racial injustice, as well as opportunities for community members to envision paths for Rice moving forward. This will include the invitation of speakers to bring to campus to foster dialogue around these issues. 3. Identify suggestions for Rice’s future for our students, our faculty and staff, and our relationship with our home community of Houston that will more fully realize our aspirations for a diverse and inclusive university.

The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library.