In 2000 the National Park Service published a theme study titled "Racial Desegregation in Public Education in the United States." Authorized by Congress, the study surveyed sites across the country "that best exemplify and illustrate the historical movement to provide for a racially nondiscriminatory education." 1 Two of the sites investigated were the George W. Watkins School and the New Kent School, both located in rural New Kent County, Virginia. In 1964, these two schools, one black and one white, set the stage for what would be one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court decisions since Brown v. the Board of Education.

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These remarks, shared at the “Legacy and Mission: Theological Education and the History of Slavery” conference at Princeton Theological Seminary, provide an overview of how William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is addressing its history with slavery and Jim Crow.