Harvard Law School’s crest derived from a slaveholding family’s coat of arms.

Evidence

I learned on Twitter that Harvard Law School was being scrutinized over their logo, which depicted three enslaved people carrying baskets of wheat beneath the word Veritas, which means “truth” in Latin. It was the family crest of Isaac Royall Jr., a Harvard alumnus from a large slaveholding family who endowed the law school in the 1930s. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 556

I learned on Twitter that Harvard Law School was being scrutinized over their logo, which depicted three enslaved people carrying baskets of wheat beneath the word Veritas, which means “truth” in Latin. It was the family crest of Isaac Royall Jr., a Harvard alumnus from a large slaveholding family who endowed the law school in the 1930s. I was astonished at how deeply entwined Harvard was with the institution of slavery, though it made me feel like I was not alone in my struggle with the university around these issues. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 556

Categorization

• SHARE: An exact, specific detail about the Royall family crest and 1930s endowment that a person interested in university-slavery entanglements would enjoy.
• CANDY: A law school whose motto is Veritas used a crest of enslaved wheat-carriers until student protest removed it.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 556