Johns Hopkins who founded famed Baltimore college was slave-owner despite school celebrating him as abolitionist
THE namesake founder of Johns Hopkins University was a slave owner - not the celebrated abolitionist many believed him to be until the school made the "difficult revelation" on Wednesday.
The university released a statement acknowledging they came across census records that showed that its founder owned at least five slaves between 1840 and 1850.
Hopkins founded his eponymous university in 1876.
“We are not alone in undertaking the difficult but essential work of reckoning with a complex history and the legacy of racial injustice,” Johns Hopkins said.
in June because of his "racist thinking and policies."
Princeton alumna and former first lady and said she was "heartened" by the move.
Wilson, who served as the United States' 28th president from 1913 to 1921, supported segregation and spoke approvingly of the Ku Klux Klan.