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Kendra Johnson, Associate Professor of Theater, Clemson University examines the lives of the people who lived and labored on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation through representative 19th-century clothing.
The purpose of "Race and the University" is to create greater awareness of and encourage open conversations about Clemson’s history as it relates to race and diversity. Although Clemson was the first all-white public college in the state to desegregate, it sits on a former plantation worked by slaves and many of its earliest buildings were built by convict laborers.
