Ole Miss one of six colleges with controversial Confederate building names
BY ALI ELKIN
Bloomberg News
July 21, 2015
... The University of North Carolina Board of Trustees voted in May to rename a campus building named after William Saunders, a Ku Klux Klan leader ... Duke University in May announced that it would rename a building once named for Charles Aycock ... a turn-of-the century governor who essentially ran on a campaign of white supremacy ... Clemson University's Faculty in February voted to ask the university to change the name of Tillman Hall ... Benjamin Tillman was a South Carolina governor at the turn of the century who helped implement the Jim Crow laws. The university decided against changing the name ... After a 2012 incident on campus when students protesting President Barack Obama's re-election chanted racist slurs, a committee to address race relations on campus generated a list of recommended actions. One of those was renaming a university building that memorializes Mississippi Gov. James Vardaman. Elected in 1903, Vardaman is remembered for turns of phrase like, "If it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy" ...
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