Posted on Feb 11, 2022
University of Alabama will remove Klan leader's name from a campus building after all
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https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/ [login to see] /university-alabama-black-student-kkk-building
University of Alabama trustees voted Friday to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.
The unanimous vote reversed a decision last week to add the name of Autherine Lucy Foster, who briefing attended the all-white state school in 1956, to a building honoring Bibb Graves, a progressive, pro-education governor who also ran a Montgomery KKK group a century ago.
University of Alabama trustees voted Friday to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.
The unanimous vote reversed a decision last week to add the name of Autherine Lucy Foster, who briefing attended the all-white state school in 1956, to a building honoring Bibb Graves, a progressive, pro-education governor who also ran a Montgomery KKK group a century ago.
University of Alabama will remove Klan leader's name from a campus building after all
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Rather than Lucy-Graves Hall, the classroom building will be known as Autherine Lucy Hall, trustees decided.
"It's never too late to make the right decision," said John England, a former trustee who led a committee that initially recommended the joint name and then reversed itself after criticism that Graves didn't deserve to have his name alongside that of Lucy, now 92 and living in metro Birmingham.
Trustees didn't mention the topic of Graves' leadership in the notorious hate group during an online meeting, but England said some questioned why the woman's married name of "Foster" wouldn't be on the structure."...
..."Rather than Lucy-Graves Hall, the classroom building will be known as Autherine Lucy Hall, trustees decided.
"It's never too late to make the right decision," said John England, a former trustee who led a committee that initially recommended the joint name and then reversed itself after criticism that Graves didn't deserve to have his name alongside that of Lucy, now 92 and living in metro Birmingham.
Trustees didn't mention the topic of Graves' leadership in the notorious hate group during an online meeting, but England said some questioned why the woman's married name of "Foster" wouldn't be on the structure."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT (Join to see) I'm Really Kind of Torn on this One. From what I've Read David Bibb Graves did an about face and became a Progressive and was Instrumental in Getting Hugo Black into the Supreme Court (Another KKK in His Youth) that Turned Out to be a Progressive and Civil Rights Icon, Call It My Christian Nature and belief in Learning from the Past and Correcting Past Mistakes.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - I too believe in forgiveness... however our past deeds sometimes stay with us throughout our lives.
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