January 9, 2005

Old times there never forgotten?

A Wayne State professor is quoted in a column written by Dwight Lewis regarding a battle of whether or not to remove the word \"Confederate\" from Confederate Memorial Hall, a campus building at Vanderbilt University. The Tennessee school is planning to renovate and remove the word from the current Confederate Memorial Hall. However the United Daughters of the Confederacy is fighting to keep name on the building. \"...Just listen to what a black Michigan educator told me in the spring of 1982, something I haven\'t forgotten:\'\'When people have Confederate license tags or display the flag on their cars or home, it might be pride in the Confederacy for Southern whites, but I think to most blacks, it\'s a symbol of segregation, racism and all the negative things about the South,\'\' said Leon Chestang, then dean of the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit.\"

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