The history behind a bell that stood in front of Tulane University's McAlister Auditorium has prompted university officials to remove it.
McAlister Auditorium at Tulane University.In a letter emailed to the Tulane community, President Mike Fitts and Board Chairman Doug Hertz said they were informed last week that the “Victory Bell” was originally used to direct the movements of enslaved people on a plantation, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.
The Victory Bell was cast in 1825 and donated by Richard W. Leche, a former Louisiana governor and a Tulane law school graduate, according to a recent student guidebook. A close ally of former Gov. Huey P. Long, Leche resigned his office and was sent to federal prison on corruption charges before being pardoned by President Harry Truman and returning to his New Orleans law practice, according to a biography published by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
In the letter, Fitts said the bell was moved to storage Thursday while the university investigates its origins. The school plans to form a special committee to recommend what will replace the bell in front of the auditorium, near the center of the New Orleans campus. The decision to remove the bell comes amid a broader push by universities across the U.S. to confront their historic ties to slavery and white supremacy.
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