Harvard refused a leadership opportunity on restitution despite wide academic pressure

Evidence

Harvard was fighting to hold on to these ancestral artifacts while academics from all these other prestigious institutions—Brown, Oxford, NYU, and even Harvard itself—were urging them to do the right thing and let them go. Harvard had an opportunity to take a leadership position on restitution and they refused. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1246

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s standing interest in how institutions hold stolen things — resonates with museum repatriation debates in articles on sacred objects.