Princeton Will Rename an Archway to Honor a Fugitive Slave

This fall, Princeton University (NJ) students will walk through an archway that bears the name not of a rich donor or a dead founder, but of a fugitive slave who once worked on campus. After his escape in Maryland in the early 19th century, James Collins (Jimmy) Johnson became a janitor and later sold snacks to students for decades before his death in 1902. Once a student reported him as a runaway slave, but a local woman paid for his freedom.