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Michigan university drops building name linked to KKK member

| September 11, 2020 8:03 AM

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University trustees unanimously changed the name of a campus building Friday after determining that a man with a long record of public service was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, despite a grandson's objections.

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