UT removes Confederate inscription (TX)

By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz - American-Statesman Staff
Posted: 12:44 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016

The University of Texas has quietly removed an inscription honoring the Confederacy and Southern pride from the South Mall ...

Fenves told the American-Statesman this week that he decided this spring that the inscription had to go. The inscription is dedicated to “the men and women of the Confederacy who fought with valor and suffered with fortitude that states rights be maintained” and who were “not dismayed by defeat nor discouraged by misrule.” It makes no mention of slavery ...

“I think it is great news that the university has taken a positive step to make the university more welcoming to African-American students,” said Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP. “Such inscriptions and displays are psychologically and emotionally harmful to many citizens, and they inhibit the university’s efforts to be widely considered to be a top international institution” ...

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