Meeting the Challenge of Honoring Clemson University’s Invisible Black Founders

Rhondda Robinson Thomas is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University where she teaches and researches early African American Literature. She is also the faculty director of the Call My Name: African Americans in Clemson University History Project and author of Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press’s Humanities and Public Life series in November 2020.