The University of Alabama is reconsidering its decision last week to retain the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan on a campus building while adding the name of the school's first Black student.
last week to retain the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan on a campus building while adding the name of the school's first Black student.
The committee that recommended honoring both people together “acknowledges the complexity of this amended name,” the university said. Graves, who began the first of two terms as governor in 1927, left the KKK in the late 1920s, after multiple terms in the legislature. As a member of the House, he opposed ratification of Alabama's 1901 Constitution, which was meant to ensure white supremacy in the state and remains in effect today although heavily amended.
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