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University of Texas Plans to Rename Dorm Named After Former Klan Leader

By Bruce Carton

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The University of Texas has decided it does not want to have a dorm named after a former Ku Klux Klan leader after all. Earlier this year, an article by Tom Russell published by the Cambridge University Press detailed the resistance by UT administrators and regents to integration in the 1950s and 1960s following landmark segregation rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. The article specifically discussed William Stewart Simkins, who taught at the UT School of Law for 30 years until his death in 1929, and who organized the Klan in Florida after the Civil War along with his brother, Eldred, KXAN reports (via The Faculty Lounge) "Simkins engaged in illegal, terrorist behavior during Reconstruction and doesn?t merit having a building carrying his name," Russell wrote. "It?s particularly true in view of the fact that he was a law professor." Simkins Residence Hall is the last all-male dormitory at the University of Texas, and is named after William Stewart Simkins. In May, the AP reported that UT had begun a review to determine whether Simkins? name should remain on the building. On Friday of last week, following advice from the advisory group that conducted the review, UT President William Powers...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).