A university in Alabama will rename two buildings that honor former Alabama governors who were staunch supporters of white supremacy and segregation amid a heightened focus on racial and social injustice, AL.com reports.
The University of Montevallo Board of Trustees voted to rename the buildings during a meeting Tuesday.
"Both buildings were named after former Alabama governors from the early 1900s who were staunch supporters of segregation and white supremacy," the school said Wednesday.
Montevallo, a state-run liberal arts school located about 35 miles south of Birmingham, will strip the names of Braxton Bragg Comer and Bibb Graves off the buildings.
Comer, who served four years beginning in 1907, was considered progressive but worked to maintain systems rooted in the state’s old plantation system, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Also a progressive, Graves was a Ku Klux Klan leader who served two terms in the 1920s and 1930s.
The school made the decision following the death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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