Cadets at the Virginia Military Institute walk in formation. (Image: Youtube/VMI)
The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) continues to abandon its racist and bigoted past, voting to remove Stonewall Jackson’s name as the author of a quote mounted in the student barracks and engraved on class rings.
VMI’s Board of Visitors voted Saturday to remove Jackson’s name from Memorial Hall and from the front of the old barracks on campus. The board also directed a committee to determine potential new names for those spots and will hold discussions later this year on new names.
The quote, “You may be whatever you resolve to be” which was added to the interior of the barrack during the 1953-54 academic year will stay where it was painted. However Jackson’s name beneath the quote will be removed.