Peabody, Francis Greenwood

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Credit: Pach Bro's, Cambridge, Mass. [Peabody, Francis Greenwood, with negative]

For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed and also  Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery.  According to the report, "When a faculty committee chose W.E.B. Du Bois and his fellow Black student Clement G. Morgan as Commencement speakers, Francis Greenwood Peabody—Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and preacher to the University—moved to consult the Harvard Corporation as to whether it was appropriate to select two Black students for this honor. Harvard Corporation's answer was no; Du Bois spoke, but Morgan did not."