What’s in a name? UVA buildings bear names of white supremacists


A wing of UVA’s hospital is named for Paul Barringer (left), who was fundamental in the
university’s eugenics movement. Alderman Library bears the name of Edwin Alderman,
a white supremacist and eugenicist who was the school’s president from 1904-1931.

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