UA Chancellor discusses Fulbright statue history, possible removal
"Celebrate that history but to celebrate the complete story of the history not just things that we pick and choose to talk about." Joseph Steinmetz told lawmakers.
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"Celebrate that history but to celebrate the complete story of the history not just things that we pick and choose to talk about." Joseph Steinmetz told lawmakers.
Last week commemorated the centennial of the race massacre in Tulsa, Okla., where a white mob attacked homes and businesses in the predominantly African American area known as Black Wall Street. Though a dark chapter in the American narrative, it was hardly an aberration. In 1919, America was embroiled in an unprecedented wave of racial terrorism that writer James Weldon Johnson coined as âRed Summer.â White mobs indiscriminately attacked African Americans across the nation, resulting in death and the annihilation of African American property and businesses that left thousands homel...
UA Chancellor Joe Steinmetz proposed this month that J. William Fulbright’s name should remain on campus, while he recommended his statue be relocated from outside Old Main and Charles Brough’s
A UA faculty member's fight to have a voice in a departmental election was heard but dismissed by the Board of Trustees today.
University of Arkansas Chancellor Dr. Joseph Steinmetz supports the move to rename a main dining hall on the campus and relocate a statue of former U.S.