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Article: News and Views: Virginia Tech Struggles With Racial Diversity
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- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 31, 2000
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
01-31-2000
News and Views: Virginia Tech Struggles With Racial Diversity
Recently some undergraduate history students at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were innocently thumbing
through the yellowed pages of an ancient 1896 Virginia Tech yearbook. Along
with accounts of other clubs and social organizations on campus, they came
upon a yearbook page devoted to members of a turn-of-the-century campus
group called the Ku Klux Klan.
Featured on the KKK yearbook page was one Claudius Lee, a student and
editor of the yearbook who was named in the yearbook as the KKK's "Father
of Terror." Lee was also identified as a member of ...