University apologizes for slavery at campus before Civil War

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Alabama apologized Tuesday to the descendants of slaves who were owned by faculty members or who worked on campus in the years before the Civil War.

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