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This advertisement features an illustration of a white planter smoking a pipe, surrounded by enslaved individuals holding farming tools like hoes and providing shade with an umbrella. The image reflects the idealized portrayal of plantation life,…

Roger Wilkins in the center is being sworn in as Director of the United States Community Relations Service, Washington, D.C., January, 1966. Also in attendance is his first wife, Eve Wilkins, daughter, Amy Wilkins, and U.S. President Lyndon Baines…

The first year for baseball at George Mason College was 1968. The team would finish second in conference play at 7-2 but post a losing record overall at 8-12. Since this first team the baseball team has made 8 NCAA tournaments and had only 4…

GMU was not as ethnically or culturally diverse as it has come to be. During the early 1970s, George Mason College had a very low representation of Black students and faculty. This led to an investigation into the college’s efforts toward diversity…

The Harris Theater 10's "A Hot Thing" scene is a passage from Toni Morrison's book "Beloved," where Sethe contemplates the horrors of slavery and refers to the dead as "a hot thing."

Mixed media source showing master plan for George Mason University. Titled "Tommorow"

Scholars from the Center for Mason Legacies (CML) closed out Black History Month 2025 with a lively showing of standout research projects conducted in the past year.

She did this to be 'sold' and bought in order to raise money for a cause, ridiculing and dismissing the trauma that comes with being a black student who has actually come from a line of ancestors who were once auctioned due to the color of their…

How did the city, county of Fairfax as well as the DMV region adjust to the newest installation of higher learning within the city of Fairfax? What type of funding was provided for utilities, roadways and public transportation systems to accommodate…

Fairfax County court demand to apprehend Joseph Stephens on behalf of David Hughes, written on March 23, 1763 by Peter Wagener, the then Clerk of the Court. Stephens is accused of assault and battery on Hughes and his wife, Mary, with damages…