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U of Oregon building named for a racist to be renamed

by Associated Press
| June 24, 2020 4:30 PM

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A building at the University of Oregon will no longer be named for an early white settler who supported slavery and who helped draft the state's constitution which barred Black people from living in the territory.

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