Vanderbilt University

====Connections to slavery====
Many of the university's early leaders had prominent ties to slavery and the Confederacy before the Civil War. Frank Vanderbilt was "a Confederate sympathizer" during the Civil War.<ref name="legacymediratta">{{cite news |last1=Mediratta |first1=Avi |last2=Bub |first2=Sydney |title=The Legacy of Slavery at Vanderbilt |url=http://vanderbiltpoliticalreview.com/the-legacy-of-slavery-at-vanderbilt/ |access-date=June 16, 2018 |work=Vanderbilt Political Review |date=October 5, 2016|quote=Although Cornelius Vanderbilt originally supported the Union, it was Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt, the Commodore's wife and a Confederate sympathizer, who supposedly convinced him to donate money for the founding of Vanderbilt University. The university named Crawford House, on the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, in her honor.}}</ref> McTyeire was born into a slave-owning family and authored an essay in favor of slavery.<ref name="vanderbilthistoricalreviewthelegacyofslavery">{{cite news|last1=Fuselier|first1=Kathryn|last2=Yee|first2=Robert|title=The Legacy of Slavery at Vanderbilt: Our Forgotten Past|url=http://vanderbilthistoricalreview.com/legacy-of-slavery/|access-date=September 19, 2017|work=Vanderbilt Historical Review|date=October 17, 2016|archive-date=October 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002120504/http://vanderbilthistoricalreview.com/legacy-of-slavery/}}</ref> Garland owned "up to 60 slaves" before the Civil War.<ref name="vanderbilthistoricalreviewthelegacyofslavery"/>

One of the founding trustees, [[Hezekiah William Foote]], was a [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] veteran and the owner of four plantations in [[Mississippi]], including [[Mount Holly (Foote, Mississippi)|Mount Holly]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Glenn |first=Justin |date=2015 |title=The Washingtons: A Family History: Volume 1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpzwAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1897|location=El Dorado Hills, California |publisher=Savas Beatie |page=1895 |isbn=978-1-61121-285-3|oclc=898163692}}</ref> The Treasurer of the Board of Trust from 1872 to 1875, [[Alexander Little Page Green]], whose portrait hangs in Kirkland Hall,<ref name="portraitgreen">{{cite web |url=http://www.tnportraits.org/green-alp.htm |title=Vanderbilt Collection&nbsp;— Kirkland Hall: A.L.P. Green 1806–1875 |website=Tennessee Portrait Project |publisher=Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee |access-date=November 9, 2015 |archive-date=January 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105151612/http://www.tnportraits.org/green-alp.htm  }}</ref> was a Methodist preacher and a former slave owner.<ref name="citycemeterygreen">{{cite web |url=http://www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org/aa-III.htm |title=Slaves Buried Between 1846–1865 |website=Nashville City Cemetery |access-date=November 9, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105415/http://www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org/aa-III.htm  }}</ref> His son-in-law, [[Robert A. Young (1824-1902)|Robert A. Young]], was a Methodist minister who served as the Financial Secretary on the Board of Trust from 1874 to 1882, retiring from the board in 1902.<ref name="thevanderbilt">{{cite news|title=The Vanderbilt. Laying of the Corner Stone of the Great University Yesterday. Interesting Ceremonies and a Large Attendance. Addressed by Bishops McTyeire and Wrightman, Gov. Brown and Chancellor Morgan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/79872208/?terms=%22laying%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bcorner%2Bstone%22%2Bvanderbilt |newspaper=Nashville Union and American |location=Nashville, Tennessee |date=April 29, 1874|page=8|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = November 22, 2015|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The Elliston family, who owned slaves, donated some of their [[Burlington (Nashville, Tennessee)|Burlington Plantation]], in one of the first expansions of the campus.{{when|date=June 2018}}<ref name="usatodaybeyondyale">{{cite news|last1=Epstein Ojalvo|first1=Holly|title=Beyond Yale: These other university buildings have ties to slavery and white supremacy|url=http://college.usatoday.com/2017/02/13/yale-university-buildings-slavery-white-supremacy/|access-date=April 7, 2018|work=USA Today|date=February 13, 2017|quote=But in 2012, a new college hall was dedicated to Elizabeth Boddie Elliston, whose family owned slaves and who, according to the university website, "donated segments of her plantation for the formation of the Vanderbilt campus."}}</ref>