What Washington and Lee has embraced

The Washington and Lee board credited Lee with the creation of “an exceptional liberal arts and legal education and common experiences and values.” But the success of what was then the all-male, Whites-only Washington College meant little to my once-enslaved great-grandparents, uncles and aunts who, at the time of Lee’s college presidency, were eking out a post-Civil War living in Culpeper County, Va., about 100 miles northeast of Lexington.