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Civil Rights Historian Daphne Chamberlain

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Daphne Chamberlain is an associate professor of history and the vice president for strategic initiatives and social justice at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. Before serving as a panelist for “What Kind of Monuments Do We Deserve?,” the second program in the Mellon-supported series “How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?,” she joined us in the green room to chat about archival finds, alternative career paths, and rethinking what a monument can be.

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