A series of sources documenting students and staff striving to make a change on campus.
Washington and Lee University's controversial past is no secret. Lexington is saturated with confederate history and holds ties to slavery. However, the people of W&L and Lexington will not let this define them forever. This exhibit displays the campus's history and documents how people stepped up to create a different, inclusive, and more diverse environment since the 1700's.
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a
bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second
generation full of courage issue forth; let a people
loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of
healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing
in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs
be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now
rise and take control.
-Margaret Walker, "For My People"