NEWS BRIEF: Emory renames Yerkes Center after public outcry
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Photo credit: Courtesy Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University
Emory University has announced it will remove the names of a former psychologist and a former U.S. Supreme Court justice from campus institutions and professorships, citing their controversial pasts.
Two professorships in the university's law school now named for L.Q.C. Lamar, an Emory graduate who defended slavery and white supremacy, will be renamed Emory School of Law Distinguished Professors; the Yerkes National Primate Research Center will become the Emory National Primate Research Center. Robert Yerkes was said to have “vigorously supported” eugenics, which called for genetic “improvement” of humans and discriminated against minority groups and people with disabilities. 11alive.com
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