The governing board of Oklahoma State University’s main campus, in Stillwater, took no action on Friday after being urged to strip two campus buildings of the name of an Oklahoma governor in the 1930s who was known for berating and disfranchising black people, according to today’s Tulsa World. The Board of Regents heard the plea from a professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology, Earl D. Mitchell Jr., the university’s first tenured African-American professor, who did not propose substitute names for the buildings. Another professor has described the governor, William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, as “the architect of Oklahoma segregation and Jim Crow.” —Andrew Mytelka
September 15, 2007
Oklahoma Regents Urged to Take Ex-Governor's Name Off Buildings
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