UVA to donate money in symbolic repayment of KKK pledge
Source: Associated Press
Updated 1:15 pm, Thursday, September 14, 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) The University of Virginia is donating to a medical fund for people injured during last month's white nationalist rallies, in a rebuke of a donation the Ku Klux Klan pledged to the university nearly a century ago.
Local media report UVA President Teresa Sullivan says the donation of $12,500 is roughly equal in today's dollars to the $1,000 the KKK pledged in 1921.
It's not clear if the KKK made good on its pledge, but Sullivan says the university wants to acknowledge it, in a way that's "as disagreeable as possible" for any remnants of the hate group.
The repayment is among the demands student groups have made since the August violence.
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