UA removes portrait of Confederate General with KKK ties from Morgan Hall (AL)

Posted: Dec 18, 2015 6:28 PM EST
Updated: Dec 18, 2015 10:36 PM EST
By Joshua Gauntt

TUSCALOOSA, AL (WBRC) - The University of Alabama removed the portrait of John Tyler Morgan from the Morgan Hall English Building on Friday.

Morgan served as a Confederate General during the Civil War and later as a United States Senator with ties to the Ku Klux Klan ...

"By removing it, it acknowledges it but there is still so much more progress that needs to be done. We want more. We deserve more. The university deserves more and we've overcome so much that we shouldn't just say we're ok with taking a picture down even though you are surrounded by remnants of racism and segregation and inequality on campus," said Kalyn Lee, an organizer with We Are Done.

Sources say the staff at Morgan Hall has been pushing for the portrait to be removed for some time ...

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