Tennessee university launches investigation after signs saying 'It's okay to be white' were placed around its campus, including on a display honoring the first African American students to enroll at the school.
Such signs appeared at the University of Vermont and at Champlain College in October 2018 and in Massachusetts at Tufts University a month later.
In a photo submitted to WCYB, signs reading "It's Okay to be White" cover a memorial honoring the first African-American students to enroll at East Tennessee State University."In an act of vandalism, flyers were placed on Borchuck Plaza over the memorial plaques of those five pioneering individuals who desegregated our institution during the 1950s," Noland said.
. Approximately 80 percent of the student body as of the fall 2019 school year is white, a spokesman for the university president told NBC News.
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