Unmasking Injustice: The East Marshall Street Well Oral History & Memorialization Project
March 5, 2025
Health Humanities Lab
Start time: 1:00 p.m.
End time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: SGA Senate Chambers in the Student Commons
Co-sponsors: History & Health Student Advisory Committee
Description
The Humanities Research Center's Health Humanities Lab's undergraduate student fellows will host a student-led roundtable about the East Marshall Street Well. This discussion will focus on medical injustice and racism in our community by exploring the history of the East Marshall Street Well, where human remains (predominantly of African descent) were discovered on MCV's campus.
The East Marshall Street Well Project works to address some of the exploitative medical practices perpetrated by Virginia Commonwealth University on Richmond’s Black communities since the 1800s. Representatives from the community and VCU will contextualize this history and discuss efforts to create oral history and memorialization projects that work toward reparative justice.