Princeton University's board votes to remove the name of former US President Woodrow Wilson from the university's School of Public and International Affairs due to his 'racist thinking and policies.'
What was Wilson College will now be called First College, while the public affairs school will be known as The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
"Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice. He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today," the president wrote.
The university had already planned to close Wilson College and retire the name as it builds two new residential colleges but decided the course of action would be to accelerate the retirement of the name.that"Princeton is doing the right thing by firmly separating itself from the Woodrow Wilson legacy."
In a second tweet, he posted a screenshot of a quote from the racist film,"Birth of a Nation," in which Wilson praised the Ku Klux Klan. Princeton University announced an hour ago that it is stripping Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and residential college. Here’s a Wilson quotation that appeared in “Birth of a Nation,” which President Wilson had screened at White House:
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