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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. Vardaman Hall, named for James Vardaman , a former Mississippi governor who advocated for lynching and adamantly opposed providing education to African-Americans will not get a plaque. Last September, state higher education leaders met at a plantation in southern Mississippi and commended the effort.

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