Team earns $1M grant to bridge connections between history, civil rights

February 1, 2023

With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians (from left) Katrina Jagodinsky, William Thomas and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law Genesis Agosto, Jessica Shoemaker, Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis and (not pictured) Catherine Wilson, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how various marginalized groups in American history used the law to contest and advance their rights.

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