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By Jim H. Smith In the middle of June 1964, a year almost to the day after the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi, several hundred college students from all over the northern United States desce…

By Jim H. Smith In the spring of 1971, Arthur Vanderbilt II ’72 was a Wesleyan junior trying to decide on a topic for his senior thesis. Vanderbilt’s father was a lawyer and his grandfather had been one, also, and bot…