Monmouth University to Remove Woodrow Wilson's Name From Building

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The New York Times logoMonmouth University to Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Building
Monmouth University in New Jersey said it will remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its marquee building after administrators, professors and students said that the former president held abhorrent views on race and reinstituted segregation in the federal work force.

The decision contrasted with a vote by Princeton University’s trustees in 2016 to keep Wilson’s name on campus buildings and programs, despite student protests that led to a review of his legacy there.

Monmouth’s trustees also voted in 2016 to keep Wilson’s name on an elaborate 1929 mansion that is the campus’s crown jewel. But in the four years since, “the context has changed,” Monmouth’s president, Patrick F. Leahy, said on Saturday.

“Wilson was a controversial politician, and I think it has heightened awareness in 2020 about some of his racist policies,” he said.

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[Matthew28]

1. Why?

Seriously, we're going to remove history of a decent man just because the time wasn't perfect.

[struggle4progress]

2. Wilson was an ardent segregationist and removed many blacks from Federal employment

[jimfields33]

4. Wow. I can't believe I'm reading that. Stunned beyond belief.

You had to forget the sarc tag.

[zipplewrath]

3. Never understood his popularity

He failed at just about anything he did. He failed to get us into the League of Nations. The Treaty of Versailles was basically responsible for the rise of Nazis and the second World War. He segregated the federal work force. He got us into the war very late. I struggle to think of anything substantively positive that he accomplished.

[demosincebirth]

5. Didn't Washington own a few slaves?