(CNN) After a week of backlash, the University of Alabama System's Board of Trustees voted Friday to name a building after the school's first Black student instead of having her share the name with a Ku Klux Klan leader.
The trustees reversed a February 3 decision to name the building Lucy-Graves Hall after its first Black student and civil rights activist Autherine Lucy Foster and Bibb Graves, a former Alabama governor and a Ku Klux Klan leader.
Students, faculty and community members cried out, saying it was wrong to recognize the legacy of these two people in one building.
"Somehow, the honoring of Autherine Lucy Foster sort of took the background and that's not what we wanted," England said.
"We've heard enough from people whose opinion matter to us -- students, faculty, staff -- that we can do that in a better way than what we've done.". »
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