CAMBRIDGE, MA - JUNE 20: Shonrael Lanier, a descendant of former slave Renty Taylor, holds a sign at a press conference held at Harvard University to talk about the lawsuit that the family has filed against the university in Cambridge, MA on June 20, 2019. Under cover from a torrential downpour, two families came together on Harvard Universitys campus Thursday to demand that the institution turn over historical photographs of two slaves and reckon with its history of white supremacy. Tamara Lanier, a Connecticut woman who sued Harvard in March, has said shes a descendant of Renty and his daughter Delia, two slaves who were forced in 1850 to pose naked for daguerreotypes, or early photographs. She said the images, discovered in 1976 and stored in Harvards Peabody Museum, rightfully belong to her, and her lawsuit alleges that Harvard is shamelessly capitalizing on them. She was joined at a press conference Thursday by descendants of controversial Harvard scientist Louis Agassiz, who commissioned the daguerreotypes in an attempt to support his theory of white biological superiority. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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