Marshal removes Confederate names from buildings

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) – Marshall University’s governing board has voted to remove the name of a Confederate general from a campus building.

The college on Tuesday said Jenkins Hall, named after Albert Gallatin Jenkins, will be known as the Education Building until the board of governors votes on a new name.

Jenkins was a congressman and served as a brigadier general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. College President Jerome A. Gilbert said the board decided to “simply to no longer honor a man whose accomplishments do not provide the university with enduring value.”

The move comes as institutions around the country reevaluate symbols and figures from the Confederacy in modern America.