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Indiana U’s Plan to Add Name of Black Basketball Star to Building Named for a Segregationist is Opposed

 

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

 

The widow of the Big Ten’s first Black basketball player says no one from Indiana University ever asked her about possibly adding his name to a campus gymnasium named for a trustee who advocated segregation in the 1940s.

 

University officials have backed off the plan approved by the Board of Trustees last week to add Bill Garrett’s name to the Ora L. Wildermuth Intramural Center.

 

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