Article 5W28A University of Alabama Reconsiders Building Sharing Names of KKK Leader and First Black Student [UPDATED]

University of Alabama Reconsiders Building Sharing Names of KKK Leader and First Black Student [UPDATED]

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Noah A. McGee
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Last week, the University of Alabama changed the name of one of its buildings from Graves Hall to Lucy-Graves Hall to honor former Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, who was also the Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan until the late 1920s, and Autherine Lucy Foster, who in 1956 became the first African-American student to...

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