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(118,320 posts) Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:15 PM Nov 2017

LSU to change name of road named after Confederate

Monday, November 27th 2017, 12:22 pm EST
By Kiran Chawla, Reporter

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - LSU will change the name of Raphael Semmes Road which runs in front of the Student Union. The road was named after a confederate officer.

The change is part of a plan to rename several streets on campus including a street named after former Louisiana Governor William C.C. Claiborne.

The name of Raphael Semmes Road will be changed to Veterans Drive later this week ...

Earlier this month, LSU professor Bob Mann wrote an opinion piece calling for the name to be changed."Almost 20 years into the 21st Century, it's time for Semmes and the other Confederates honored on the LSU campus to go," Mann wrote. "They have no place on the buildings and streets of a public university that claims to value diversity and inclusion" ...

http://www.wafb.com/story/36932660/lsu-to-change-name-of-road-named-after-confederate-officer

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LSU to change name of road named after Confederate (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2017 OP

Semmes is one of those names which should not be lost to history. Pope George Ringo II Nov 2017 #1

Pope George Ringo II

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1. Semmes is one of those names which should not be lost to history.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:36 PM

Nov 2017

He may not be worth admiring as one of the good guys, but his success with the Alabama was a huge contributor to German merchant raiding in two World Wars. I'm not keen on naming either streets or children after him, but he definitely needs to have a course named after him at the Naval Academy, if nothing else.

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