Crews at the University of Richmond waste no time in covering the names of slaveholders and segregationists on campus buildings following approval last week of the UR Board of Trustees. Here, ladders were raised to cover the name of Puryear Hall, an academic building named for Bennet Puryear, a slave-owning UR chemistry teacher and faculty leader. The building’s new name is Fountain Hall.
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Signs of the times
University of Richmond campus buildings honoring slaveholders and segregationists are getting new names after years of pushing Board of Trustees to make changes
Six buildings on the University of Richmond’s campus are being cleansed of the names of slaveholders and champions of segregation, including a building named in honor of the university’s founding president, the Rev. Robert Ryland.
