Robertson Hall, home to Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Wikicommons Media)
Princeton University will remove the name of its 34th president, who once blocked Black students from enrollment.
As of June 29, President Woodrow Wilson‘s name is no longer welcomed at Princeton University.
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The Ivy League school has recently announced that it will take steps to remove his name from the school of public and international affairs and one of its residential colleges, despite the prestige Wilson brings to the school’s history.
“We have taken this extraordinary step because we believe that Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students, and alumni must be firmly committed to combatting the scourge of racism in all its forms,” the university said in a statement following a vote by the board of trustees Friday.
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According to the Daily Princetonian, the student newspaper, more than half of the school’s current class in the public affairs school and about three-quarters of its class of 2020 signed a petition to remove Wilson.
