HISTORY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Yale Daily News, Elihu Yale, Hopper College
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News view: rename calhoun college, yale daily news, september 2, 2015. They want to change the name of calhoun college, which honors john c. Calhoun, who is one of the fiercest advocates of slavery known to our country. They want to inscribe different values into yale"s present and to aspire to be a better, more racially just future. More than half of the colleges are named for men who owned slaves or defended slavery. The university is named after elihu yale, who was a british merchant who profited from the slave trade. Calhoun was a political theorist and a politician from south carolina. He was a congressman, senator, secretary of war, secretary of state, and vice president. He famously defended the buying and selling of human beings as a positive good. he had a doctrine of white supremacy as well. We look to the past when we find present means of undoing injustice wanting.
