Northern States Taking Down Vestiges Of Racism, Intolerance

DETROIT (AP) — A nearly 80-year-old statue depicting a European settler with a weapon in his hand towering over a Native American that some say celebrates white supremacy has been dismantled by crews in southwestern Michigan's Kalamazoo. And at the University of Michigan, regents have voted to strip a former school president's name from a campus science building because he lent his scientific expertise to groups that were in favor of selective reproduction, also known as eugenics. Vestiges of racism and intolerance are slowly being moved and removed in Michigan and other northern states.Read more on NewsOK.com

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