{"id":2011139,"date":"2023-08-24T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-college-removes-names-of-revolutionary-war-era-figures-to-be-more-inclusive\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T21:38:19","slug":"virginia-college-removes-names-of-revolutionary-war-era-figures-to-be-more-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-college-removes-names-of-revolutionary-war-era-figures-to-be-more-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia College removes names of Revolutionary War-era figures for inclusivity."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-college-removes-names-of-revolutionary-war-era-figures-to-be-more-inclusive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a> college has\u2063 continued to erase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/american-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary War<\/a>-era figures from campus to\u2062 be \u201cmore inclusive,\u201d including a signer of the Declaration of Independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Virginia Peninsula Community College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpcc.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/Griffin,%20Wythe%20Halls%20to%20be%20Ranamed%20Kecoughtan%20Hall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> this week that \u200dit would change\u200d the \u2063names of two halls, \u2063one\u2063 named for Founding Father George Wythe and the other\u200b for Dr. Corbin \u200dGriffin, who served as a surgeon for Virginia Patriot soldiers.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cVirginia Peninsula Community College is renaming \u200cGriffin and\u200d Wythe halls, \u2062which are connected and function as one building, to Kecoughtan Hall. \u2064The name is\u2064 a tribute to the Kecoughtan tribe, the early \u2062settlers of the land \u2063where\u2062 VPCC\u2019s Hampton campus is located,\u201d VPCC announced on its website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to school official Steven Felker, the process of changing over the signs will\u200d be\u2062 \u201cgradual.\u201d The school had formed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-college-removes-names-of-revolutionary-war-era-figures-to-be-more-inclusive\/\" title=\"Virginia College removes names of Revolutionary War-era figures for inclusivity.\">naming task force<\/a> and gathered feedback from faculty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-c-irvine-to-pass-anti-semitic-divestment-resolution-against-murderous-israel\/\" title=\"U.C. Irvine To Pass Anti-Semitic Divestment Resolution Against \u2018Murderous\u2019 Israel\">student government<\/a>, and others\u200d on the proposed\u2063 changes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wythe, who lived from 1726-1806, had\u200c a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/George-Wythe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrating-jackie-robinson-day-three-moments-that-defined-the-man-who-broke-baseballs-color-barrier\/\" title=\"Celebrating \u2018Jackie Robinson Day\u2019: Three Moments That Defined The Man Who Broke Baseball\u2019s Color Barrier\">storied career<\/a><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in Virginia. \u200bAs a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-state-2024-race-shapes-up-as-candidates-vie-to-replace-katie-porter\/\" title=\"California's 2024 race intensifies as contenders compete for Katie Porter's seat.\">law \u200cprofessor<\/a>, he taught luminaries like Thomas\u200c Jefferson, Henry Clay, and John Marshall. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years leading up to America\u2019s war \u2064for independence,\u200d he served as a delegate to the Virginia House of Burgess,\u200d where he openly opposed the \u200cStamp\u2063 Act. During \u2064the war,\u2064 he was a \u2064member of\u2063 the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He later attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787 \u2064and was \u200dinfluential in pioneering the field of constitutional law. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like many Founding Fathers, Wythe had a complicated relationship with slavery. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although he \u2062owned \u2064slaves, he was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colonialwilliamsburg.org\/explore\/nation-builders\/george-wythe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recognized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  as an early proponent of abolition and \u2063worked\u200d throughout his life to free them. As\u2063 a judge in Virginia, he \u2062 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmdb.org\/m.asp?m=9604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ruled \u2064in favor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of freeing slaves during \u2062an\u200b internal family\u2062 dispute over the will of a Quaker landowner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Less is known about Griffin, but historians know that he was a surgeon for Virginia\u2019s\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrating-july-4-throughout-the-decades\/\" title=\"Celebrating July 4 Throughout the Decades\">revolutionary soldiers<\/a> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmdb.org\/m.asp?m=80985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spent time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on a British prison ship outside Yorktown. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.virginia.gov\/members\/3770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  also a Virginia state senator. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VPCC was previously named Thomas\u200c Nelson Community College. \u2063Nelson was another Revolutionary War hero \u2063and signer of\u200d the \u200dDeclaration of Independence.\u200d His name\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpcc.edu\/renaming\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was removed<\/a> so the college could be more \u201cwelcoming, inclusive, and representative of\u2062 our unique region,\u201d \u2064according to school\u200d president Towuanna Porter Brannon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/search\/bio\/N000044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a member<\/a> of the\u2062 first\u2063 Continental Congress in 1776 and 1779, led Virginian forces against the British from 1777 to \u200d1781, and was governor of Virginia. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia college is removing Revolutionary War-era figures from campus to promote inclusivity. Virginia Peninsula Community College will rename two halls, one honoring George Wythe, a Declaration of Independence signer, and the other honoring Dr. Corbin Griffin. 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