Article: News and Views: The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University

News and Views: The Racial Record of Johns Hopkins University

In the mid-nineteenth century, entrepreneur Johns Hopkins was the principal owner of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was also one of the wealthiest men in the United States. An abolitionist even before the term was coined, Hopkins maintained a strong sense of social justice. In 1807, when Hopkins was a boy of 12, his father freed the 100 Negro slaves who had worked on the family's tobacco farm. As a result, it was necessary for young Johns to leave school to work on the family farm.

In 1873 Hopkins died leaving a $7 million(*) trust to establish Johns Hopkins University and an affiliated hospital. At the time, it was the ...

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