Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British merchant, philanthropist and slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.[1]
No.
Really?
Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/27/beneath-the-ivy-a-legacy-of/
Beneath The Ivy, A Legacy of Chains
Brown was not the only Ivy League school to profit from slavery
The release last week of a Brown University report detailing the school’s historical ties to slavery has brought to light slave money that other elite universities, including Harvard, took centuries ago.
Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, the other Lee "Light Horse Harry"
And we need to rename that double-barreled offenders - Washington and Lee University, as well as James Madison Univeristy, George Mason University...