Univ. of Arkansas board backs plan to keep Fulbright statue
July 28, 2021 GMT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a plan to keep a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus, despite calls to remove it because of his opposition to integration.
The resolution approved Wednesday also called for keeping Fulbright’s name on the Fayetteville campus’s college of arts and sciences.
Fulbright was a University of Arkansas graduate and served as the university’s president for three years starting in 1939. He is known worldwide for creating an international education scholarship in his name. But the university has faced calls to remove his statue and his name from the school over his opposition to integration and civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
Fulbright s UA statue to stay, put in context
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Univ. of Arkansas system head: Fulbright statue should stay
July 27, 2021
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The leader of the University of Arkansas system on Tuesday proposed keeping a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus but add “contextualization about his legacy, despite calls to remove the monument because of Fulbright s support of segregation.
System President Donald Bobbitt cited a new state law preventing the removal of historical monuments without state approval in his proposal, which is going before the university s board of trustees on Wednesday. Bobbitt s proposal also called for keeping Fulbright s name on the Fayetteville campus college of arts and sciences.