2. UM to wipe George Merrick, Fillmore from campus buildings | Miami Herald
May 10, 2021 Leave a comment
The students worked with historians to bring to light some of George Merrick’s actions on the planning board. In 1937, for example, a “Negro Resettlement Plan” was proposed to relocate Black community members to the “least preferred locations outside of the Miami city limits,” according to meeting minutes from the time. The proposal was never put into action. The petition was first presented to the university’s Board of Trustees at a July meeting, and the students were told that renaming the education school building requires returning the land and the money used to pay for the building, which was not possible. The parking structure, however, will be given a “neutral, directional name.”
UM to wipe George Merrick, Fillmore from campus buildings | Miami Herald
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