Dream Deferred ExhibitOxford College professor Mark Auslander’s research led to a 2002 exhibition “A Dream Deferred: African Americans at Emory and Oxford Colleges, 1836–1968,” on display on Woodruff Library’s Special Collections. “Dream Deferred” examines the history of African Americans at Emory and Oxford from the time of Emory’s founding in 1836 to the desegregation of the university during the 1960s. The exhibit was developed by students of Mark Auslander, then assistant professor of anthropology at Oxford College, as part of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life. This exhibit documented the history of race at Emory from 1836-1968. The exhibit notebook identifies enslaved persons in Oxford, Georgia from 1836-1864, and includes their associations with Oxford and Emory people.
More information available in the Emory Report https://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2002/January%20/erJan.14/1_14_02kingweek.html
Students in HIST 488RW/AMST 489W: REPARATIVE HISTORY AT EMORY, taught by Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer, developed The Emory 1836 Project as an active, reparative history project that recognizes the active presence and contributions of Black and Indigenous peoples throughout Emory University's history. Conducting research in the Rose Library and Oxford College library, the interdisciplinary junior/senior colloquium developed an ARCGIS map with support from the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
Oxford College professor Mark Auslander’s research led to a 2002 exhibition “A Dream Deferred: African Americans at Emory and Oxford Colleges, 1836–1968,” on display on Woodruff Library’s Special Collections. “Dream Deferred” examines the history of African Americans at Emory and Oxford from the time of Emory’s founding in 1836 to the desegregation of the university during the 1960s. The exhibit was developed by students of Mark Auslander, then assistant professor of anthropology at Oxford College, as part of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life. This exhibit documented the history of race at Emory from 1836-1968. The exhibit notebook identifies enslaved persons in Oxford, Georgia from 1836-1864, and includes their associations with Oxford and Emory people.