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Univ. of Arkansas board backs plan to keep Fulbright statue
July 28, 2021 GMT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a plan to keep a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus, despite calls to remove it because of his opposition to integration.
The resolution approved Wednesday also called for keeping Fulbright’s name on the Fayetteville campus’s college of arts and sciences.
Fulbright was a University of Arkansas graduate and served as the university’s president for three years starting in 1939. He is known worldwide for creating an international education scholarship in his name. But the university has faced calls to remove his statue and his name from the school over his opposition to integration and civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
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The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a resolution to leave the statue of former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright where it is on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, but to provide “historical context” for the monument to the longtime leader.
Fulbright’s legacy has come under increased scrutiny in recent months.
He served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the U.S. Senate from 1945 until losing the Democratic primary for his seat in 1974. Fulbright is the longest-serving chairman in the history of the Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations. The Fulbright Program was created in 1946 by Sen. Fulbright and is managed by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. More than 400,000 “Fulbrighters” have participated in the program which now operates in more than 160 countries.
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