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- Mar 3, 2015
ECU trustees do right thing by removing name from dorm
Jim Jenkins | jjenkins@newsobserver.com News item: The trustees of East Carolina University, after months of discussion and contention, voted unanimously to remove the name of Charles Brantley Aycock, governor of North Carolina from 1901-1905, from a dormitory on campus. The decision came because Aycock, long heralded as the state’s first “education governor,” also happened to be a white supremacist, and a well-documented one. Naysayers might contend the action was prompted b
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