William & Mary renames three buildings, history department that honored Confederate supporters [View all]

WILLIAMSBURG — The College of William & Mary has renamed three buildings and a department that currently honor supporters of the Confederacy, the school’s latest move in a yearslong process to shed references to men who supported the Confederacy, enslavement and racism.

Instead, the university will honor the school’s first Black student, a man who studied LGBTQ traditions and a descendant of a U.S. president.

“The past is the past, but how we know it and how we tell it evolves as we learn more and as our community changes,” President Katherine Rowe said at Friday’s board of visitors meeting. “William & Mary must pursue truth-telling.”

But one member of the board and the university’s student government president criticized the university for not removing every name that honors an enslaver and not moving fast enough.

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