George Wallace from a campus building because of his support of racism and segregation. The Physical Education Building, as it will now be called, was named after the four-term Alabama governor and presidential candidate in 1975. On Friday (February 5), the University Trustees unanimously passed a resolution to remove his name from a building on campus, according to a report by The Trustees acknowledged Wallace’s eventual denouncement of racist policies, and cited that his rise to power was due to his support of racist ideology. His name on the building, the Board said, served as a painful reminder of racial injustice for many people.