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Students for Edmund W. Gordon Tower: The resurgence of a movement for racial justice over a building with a contentious history

By Rommel Nunez / Senior Staff Photographer

Students for Edmund W. Gordon Tower have long demanded Thorndike Hall, previously named after a prominent eugenicist, be renamed after the University’s first Black tenured professor. As Gordon approaches 101 years of age, they say the change is even more urgent.

By Isabella Ramirez • January 24, 2022 at 5:45 AM

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Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, the first Black professor to receive tenure at the University.