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struggle4progress

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Thu Oct 15, 2015, 08:00 PM Oct 2015

‘Take it down': Students prepare for rally on Friday (MS)

Posted on Oct 15 2015 - 11:34am
by Dawn Boddie

The University’s chapter of the NAACP will be hosting a rally in an effort to remove the state flag from campus ...

Buka Okoye, UM NAACP president, believes the removal of Confederate symbols from campus is imperative ...

“When people think of Ole Miss I don’t want them to think, ‘oh that’s a racist school,’” Okoye said. “Therefore, what are we doing to rid ourselves of that image?” ...

Douglass Sullivan-González, dean of the Honors College, said it’s now no longer a question of whether the flag will be taken down or not, but when ...


http://thedmonline.com/take-it-down-students-prepare-for-rally-on-friday/

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