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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.

Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence — and shaped the nation’s hardline policies toward Native Americans.

Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence — and shaped the nation’s hardline policies toward Native Americans.

MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native Americans | 2021-10-15 13:16:40

MIT is now grappling with calls from Native American students and others to strip Walker's name from a campus building that is central to student life - part of a broader push for the nation's higher education institutions to atone for the role they played in the decimation of Native American tribes.

Francis Amasa Walker, the third president of MIT, helped bring the school its prestige. He also wrote a treatise in 1874 justifying the forced removal of Native Americans from their land. Now, students and alumni are debating how to navigate Walker’s mixed legacy.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.

Mutually Assured Survival: Mahmood Mamdani’s Call to Decolonise the Political and Decriminalise Justice In ‘Neither Setter nor Native’, the Ugandan scholar draws valuable lessons from the history of the United States, Sudan, Israel/Palestine, Nuremberg and South Africa. Mahmood Mamdani. Photo: Mahmood Mamdani/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Harvard University Press, 20...