The University of Alabama will add the name of the university’s first black student to an academic building to share with its current namesake — a former Alabama governor and “Grand Cyclops” of the KKK.The University of Alabama Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to change the name of Graves Hall to Lucy-Graves Hall, in honor of Autherine Lucy Foster, who broke the color barrier and enrolled in the university in 1956, according to the Crimson White. The building was named after Bibb Graves, a two-term Democratic Alabama governor and Ku Klux Klan officer.
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