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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California Hastings College of the Law will work on removing the name of its founder, who sponsored massacres of Native Americans in the 1850s, the board of directors voted Tuesday.
A Times article helped galvanize a push to rename the school, whose founder masterminded the slaughter of Yuki men, women and children.
Hastings Law School was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, a wealthy rancher and former chief justice of the California Supreme Court
The University of California Hastings College of the Law voted to change its name to distance itself from its founder's attacks against Indigenous people
The inconvenient truth of founder Serranus Hastings’ genocide and enslaving of Native Americans has the law school’s board pushing through a name change, particularly after a big-bucks megadonor demanded it.