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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Feb 12, 2022, 08:51 AM Feb 2022

University of Alabama removes name of Klansman from a campus building

The trustees reversed a previous decision to keep the name of Bibb Graves on a building.

Instead, the building will be named exclusively for the first Black student at the state flagship in Alabama, Autherine Lucy Foster.



University of Alabama removes name of Klansman from a campus buildingThe trustees reversed a previous decision to keep the name of Bibb Graves on a building. Instead, the building will be named exclusively for the first Black student at the state flagship in Alabama,...
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University of Alabama removes name of Klansman from a campus building (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 OP
Took long enough. OrlandoDem2 Feb 2022 #1
Be nice if they removed current klansmen JT45242 Feb 2022 #2

JT45242

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2. Be nice if they removed current klansmen
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 09:35 AM
Feb 2022

From the board of directors. From the athletic department. From the faculty.

Oh, and dropped them from the donor lists.

Ain't none of that gonna happen.

Nice photo op, but not real change.

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