Who is behind Brown University?
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Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
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Led by
- Ruth Simmons head of 2003 President Primary record 1
Money in
- John Brown (Providence merchant) funded treasurer and a chief benefactor Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2006.
Primary record
In 2003, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to investigate and issue a public report on the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
the College of Rhode Island’s treasurer and one of its chief benefactors
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