Henderson County (May 25, 2021) - RALEIGH Could an obscure historical discovery force Wingate University and the town to change names? That question is roiling Wingate, a small Union County town 30 miles southeast of Charlotte.
Henderson County (May 25, 2021) - RALEIGH Could an obscure historical discovery force Wingate University and the town to change names? That question is roiling Wingate, a small Union County town 30 miles southeast of Charlotte.
Hatch informed Wingate that Wake Forest found that Manly Wingate, whom the school is named for, had ties to slavery.
In 2018, WFU asked university staff to learn whether any of their buildings or statues were named after people with racist or other complicated backgrounds that could be viewed as scandalous today.
WFU sociology professor Joseph Soares found that “every president of Wake Forest until the Civil War had enslaved human beings under him.” That included Manly Wingate.
Wake Forest recently announced that its Wingate Hall will be renamed to “May 7, 1860 Hall” to memorialize the day the institution sold 16 people at a slave auction under Wingate’s presidency.
Asfaw Yemiru, former street urchin who founded a school for disadvantaged children in Addis Ababa – obituary
He started teaching street children under an oak tree aged 14 and persuaded Emperor Haile Selassie to grant him land to build a school
Asfaw Yemiru
Asfaw Yemiru, who has died probably aged 79, came to Addis Ababa as a nine-year old street urchin but, through talent and initiative, acquired an education; aged 14 he started teaching other street children under the shade of a tree, and he went on to found the Asra Hawariat (“Footsteps of the Apostles”) School which, over the years, has offered free education to some 120,000 of the poorest children in the Ethiopian capital.