Norman's DeBarr Avenue, named for KKK leader, highlighted amid national conversations about removing monuments

The intersection of DeBarr Avenue and Boyd Street. DeBarr Avenue is named for Edwin DeBarr, a former OU professor and KKK leader. (Dana Branham/The Daily)
The name of a former OU professor and KKK leader was struck from a campus building almost 30 years ago. Just across the street, his name remains.
Dana Branham, enterprise editor
The name of a former OU professor and KKK leader was struck from a campus building almost 30 years ago.
Just across the street, his name remains.
Dana Branham, enterprise editor
Aseem Nevrekar is tired of writing his address.
Nevrekar, an aerospace engineering doctoral student, has lived on DeBarr Avenue for six years. On a campus ghost tour, he learned of his street’s namesake: Edwin DeBarr, a prominent national Ku Klux Klan leader of his time and one of OU’s first four professors.

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