GRAMBLING, La.
The Grambling State University president is investigating a case in which adults at the university-run elementary school on campus put a noose around at least one child’s neck and the school newspaper’s publication of photographs of it.
Kindergarten and first-grade students at Alma J. Brown Elementary School were being taught why nooses are a symbol of racism, an article from the historically Black university’s student newspaper said.
The article said the children also were being taught about the “Jena Six” Black high-school students who are accused of beating a White schoolmate. Court proceedings brought about 20,000 to 25,000 people to Jena, about 70 miles from Grambling, for a civil rights march in September.
The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have said the charges were too heavy for the actions and that three White students who were suspended after hanging nooses from a tree on the school campus three months earlier should have been expelled and prosecuted.
The date of the Grambling incident was not clear and the article and the photos had been removed from the site.
University President Horace Judson said he ordered photos removed from the Web site as soon as his secretary called him Friday to describe them. At the time, he said, he was driving to Dallas for Saturday’s football game against Prairie View A&M University.
