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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 10:43 PM Aug 2015

Tulane should address symbols of Confederate past (LA)

Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 5:41 pm
Updated: 1:53 am, Thu Aug 20, 2015.
Sarah Simon

As Tulane students, we hear the name Gibson every day. We log onto Gibson Online to register for classes and access important information. We attend classes in Gibson Hall ...

Randall Lee Gibson was the first president of the Tulane Board of Administrators. He was also a plantation owner, a segregationist and a Confederate general ...

With New Orleans taking the initiative to remove its racist monuments, Tulane University must turn the looking glass onto itself. The naming of buildings and institutional elements should be scrutinized ...


http://www.tulanehullabaloo.com/views/article_64a838a6-46c3-11e5-8322-8798ff80379c.html

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