Cleveland City Council has adopted a resolution asking Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law to change its name because its namesake, John Marshall, was a slave owner. Councilman Kevin Conwell sponsored the legislation.
CLEVELAND — On Monday, Cleveland City Council adopted a resolution asking Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law to change its name because its namesake, John Marshall, was a slave owner. Councilman Kevin Conwell sponsored the legislation.
"Unlike other major slaveholders, such as his cousin Thomas Jefferson, Marshall did not inherit enslaved people; he aggressively bought them when he could. Whether buying young children, or a mother and one of her children, or selling them to raise cash, he paid little attention to the enslaved families he destroyed in his lifelong quest for more human property,” Paul Finkelman wrote in The Atlantic.
I believe that our law school name process has modeled what we teach our students- as lawyers, we are trained to listen and learn, and to withhold judgment until we have had a chance to evaluate what we have heard." Fisher asked students to fill out the feedback form by Monday, Jan. 17. Read his full statement titled"What's in a name?" here.
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