New Jersey – Princeton University will look into removing the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from buildings and school programs under a deal signed with student demonstrators over what they call his racist legacy.
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Thursday’s agreement between students and several top administrators at the renowned Ivy League university in New Jersey ended a 32-hour sit-in outside Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber’s office, a university statement said.
Eisgruber said Princeton appreciated the “willingness of the students to work with us to find a way forward”.
Protest organizers from the Black Justice League have called on Princeton to remove Wilson’s name and image from its public spaces, as well as from the university’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Wilson, the 28th U.S. president from 1913 to 1921, was a leader of the Progressive Movement but also supported racial segregation, which was legal and part of public policy at the time in the United States, particularly in southern states. Segregation was banned under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Calls for the removal of Wilson’s name from Princeton, where he served as president from 1902 to 1910, arose during a wave of demonstrations at U.S. colleges over the treatment of minority students.
The Princeton students also want the school to institute a cultural competency and diversity training program and to designate space on campus for “cultural affinity” groups.
The inmates are running the asylum!
I think they should name if after Malcolm X, Farrakhan or that American saint Martin Luther King, also take off Washington off money and replace him with Rosa Parks and Jefferson with Maya Angelou or Cesar Chavez or Muhammad or better yet Jeremiah Wright, the guy in the white house”s rebbe.
Stupidity. If they really wanted to eliminate any semblance of racism they should erase the name of any president before 1950, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and all other famous men who supported segregation. You can’t erase history, and the people who are “offended” should grow up.
Thes guys are crazy. And next will be changing the name of our capital from Washington DC to Sharpton DC. After all our first president owned black slaves. They are looking to rewrite history to hide their own history.
commies, all of em
Why don’t they just eliminate the students?
What about Earl Warren and FDR, who locked up 110,000 Japanese-Americans? Better to name buildings after J. Edgar Hoover, who opposed the internment.
Asylum, albroker, Curiosity, Tom Jefferson, BuckyinWisconsin, Geulah, bennyt and Chaim Eliezer…
…I suspect that all of you would sing a different tune if it were Richard Wagner’s name that was being removed from a building.
#BlackLiesMatter