Douglas Southall Freeman: Difference between revisions

In 2021, some students and faculty at the University of Richmond, where Freeman served as Rector for seven years, criticized the University board of trustees for refusing to remove Freeman's name from a campus building, although he had "supported racial segregation, opposed interracial marriage and promoted racist concepts underlying the eugenics movement." The “greatest inheritance,” Freeman once said, was “clean blood, right-thinking ancestry.” On March 28, 2022, the Trustees of the University of Richmond voted to remove Douglas Southall Freeman’s name from the campus building, due to his lifelong history of support for and furtherance of racism and segregation. <ref>{{Cite news|title=Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/03/25/university-richmond-ryland-freeman-buildings/|access-date=2021-10-13|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> On March 28, 2022, the Trustees of the University of Richmond voted to remove Douglas Southall Freeman’s name from the campus building, due to his lifelong history of support for and furtherance of racism and segregation.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}